<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 1:59 PM, David Cournapeau <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cournape@gmail.com" target="_blank">cournape@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>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.</div><div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></span></div></div></div></blockquote><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>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.</div></div></div></div></blockquote></span></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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...</div><div><br></div><div>another note-- conda has teh concetp of a "build" that's tacked on teh release for conda pacakges.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>for instance, I'm messing around right now with building libgd for conda, and the latest version I have up on <a href="http://anaconda.org">anaconda.org</a> is:</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div>libgd-2.1.1</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">but the actual file is:</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br>libgd-2.1.1-1.tar.bz2 </div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">(and there is a libgd-2.1.1-0.tar.bz2 there too...)</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Maybe this would be helpful for PyPi, too?</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>I am sure there are things we can do to improve numpy's release process to avoid this in the future.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>numpy was just an example -- we are all likely to make mistakes in the future - it's human nature.</div><div><br></div><div>-CHB</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><br>Christopher Barker, Ph.D.<br>Oceanographer<br><br>Emergency Response Division<br>NOAA/NOS/OR&R (206) 526-6959 voice<br>7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax<br>Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception<br><br><a href="mailto:Chris.Barker@noaa.gov" target="_blank">Chris.Barker@noaa.gov</a></div>
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