On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 11:50:44AM +0100, Alessandro Molina wrote: > > Can't we provide both? > Nothing prevents us from releasing on pypi a package with frozen > versions and keep the private index with a package that has minimum > versions requirements. I think that this is the way that would make > easy for newcomers to install the framework and possible for experts > to tune it. > It just requires a very little extra effort from us when preparing a > new release. > Just would like to point out that this is either a poor or a very bad solution depending on how it's implemented. If you have two packages on two separate, "canonical" sites with different versions (to denote that each installs different ways) you're going to have people who don't know the backstory trying to guess at which version is "newer" and installing that. But that's just the poor implementation. Very bad is if you have two canonical sites for the package with two different packages with the same version. Then people who don't know the backstory will install one or the other and be confused why it doesn't behave as the other one is documented/like the one that their co-worker installed on his machine, etc.
-Toshio
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