Etria Lists

On Apr 11, 2008, at 9:03 AM, Reinout van Rees wrote:
> Tim Hicks schreef:
>
>> What's the etiquette for uploading packages to pypi?  Are beta  
>> releases
>> meant to be there?
>
> If they're pretty good: no problem. You must keep in mind that people
> will get a 1.1 beta egg over their 1.0 stable egg if they just  
> depend on
> your product without some "<= 1.0" in the requirement.
>
> The basic etiquette is: put releases on pypi. So alpha and beta eggs  
> are
> fine. What's wrong is to put all those 1.0-r1234 eggs with an svn
> version number on pypi.


There is an option in buildout to prefer final releases.

http://tinyurl.com/6pxhxg

I haven't used it yet and I assume it relies on the egg author putting  
a flag somewhere saying the the package is not a final release.  But  
this seems to me to be the optimal solution for end users.

Clayton
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