On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 11:23 PM, Chris Barker <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 1:59 PM, David Cournapeau <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> But I'm talking about the cases of "whoops! I really wish I hadn't >>> uploaded that one". We can improve the tooling (some discussion on this in >>> this thread right now...), but people are people and some of us are stupid >>> and/or careless. So this WILL happen. >>> >> > >> I have not done numpy releases for half a decade now, but it was already >>> automated enough that putting a new version was not very costly then. >>> >> > yeah, I suppose releases are cheap -- though part of the problem is that > your users are likley to think that you actually fixed a bug or something. > And maybe wonder why you went from 1.2.3 to 1.3.5 seemingly all at once... > > another note-- conda has teh concetp of a "build" that's tacked on teh > release for conda pacakges. > Note that build is a feature for binaries: different builds refer to the same upstream source. Most linux distributions have the notion of downstream version which is a generalization of that. David > So if I updated somethign about how teh packge is buitl, but am using teh > same underllying version of teh package, I update teh build number, get a > new "version" of the package, but it's clear that the pacakge itself is the > same version. > > for instance, I'm messing around right now with building libgd for conda, > and the latest version I have up on anaconda.org is: > > libgd-2.1.1 > > but the actual file is: > > libgd-2.1.1-1.tar.bz2 > > (and there is a libgd-2.1.1-0.tar.bz2 there too...) > > Maybe this would be helpful for PyPi, too? > > I am sure there are things we can do to improve numpy's release process to >> avoid this in the future. >> > > numpy was just an example -- we are all likely to make mistakes in the > future - it's human nature. > > -CHB > > > -- > > Christopher Barker, Ph.D. > Oceanographer > > Emergency Response Division > NOAA/NOS/OR&R (206) 526-6959 voice > 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax > Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception > > [email protected] >
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