[Distutils] "Stable" versions

2008-12-16 Thread Ian Bicking
I've received a request that pip be able to be restricted to "stable" versions. It was suggested some kind of --alpha-ok or --beta-ok option, but this seems crude. I'd rather have it be part of the requirement. Maybe Package==stable? But there's also reason to do something like Package>=2.0,

Re: [Distutils] "Stable" versions

2008-12-16 Thread Phillip J. Eby
At 06:44 PM 12/16/2008 -0600, Ian Bicking wrote: I've received a request that pip be able to be restricted to "stable" versions. It was suggested some kind of --alpha-ok or --beta-ok option, but this seems crude. I'd rather have it be part of the requirement. Maybe Package==stable? But there

Re: [Distutils] "Stable" versions

2008-12-16 Thread Ian Bicking
Phillip J. Eby wrote: At 06:44 PM 12/16/2008 -0600, Ian Bicking wrote: I've received a request that pip be able to be restricted to "stable" versions. It was suggested some kind of --alpha-ok or --beta-ok option, but this seems crude. I'd rather have it be part of the requirement. Maybe Pack

Re: [Distutils] "Stable" versions

2008-12-16 Thread Benji York
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 7:44 PM, Ian Bicking wrote: > Also, there needs to be a definition of what versions are "stable". And > maybe a distinction between beta/rc and development, though I'm less worried > about that. Are there definitions of this? Does zc.buildout do this? http://pypi.pytho

Re: [Distutils] "Stable" versions

2008-12-16 Thread Ben Finney
Ian Bicking writes: > Also, there needs to be a definition of what versions are "stable". > And maybe a distinction between beta/rc and development, though I'm > less worried about that. Are there definitions of this? A further complication: If “Foo” at its latest stable version has a dependenc