Hi Kay,
Astroid pretty much has an independent release process,
but when necessary we release them both together, for instance
when the API of astroid changes or when there's an important
bug fix that all pylint users should have.
I just bumped pylint to 2.0.1 as well, which includes a fix for a crash
that was occurring when inferring `next()`. It also bumps the dependency
of astroid to 2.0.1 so this should clear the installations that still uses
the dev release of astroid.
Thanks for creating those issues! I took a look at a couple of them and
they seem genuine bugs.
Thanks again!
Claudiu
On 23 July 2018 at 08:45, Kay Hayen
Hello Claudiu,
The 2.0 vs 2.0.1 problem you're experiencing with astroid was a problem with the 2.0 release. Due to a mistake in the release process, the wheel for 2.0 was in fact the last dev release of astroid. The .tar.gz sdist though was containing the actual 2.0 code. Not sure how the dev release got to be marked as 2.0 but only for the wheel file, but we added some additional documentation in the release process to ensure this doesn't happen again (although ideally we'd move the release to be an automatic process rather than manual as it is now)
For the other issues, I suggest opening separate issues on the bug tracker since otherwise they can get lost here.
First of all, shit happens, and not a huge problem of course. I have done similar. Automation is fine, but not necessary less error prone. My static web site deployment e.g. managed to revert to 2 years old site due to a wrongly set RTC clock, turning all of 2 years of posts into drafts. But it it is less work, and you got a machine to blame. ;-)
I was mainly wondering if Astroid had an independent release process. And I was wondering if there shouldn't have been a 2.0.1 release then for PyLint too.
What's bound to be happening is that lots of people have "pylint" latest installed, but not the real thing. And nothing can make them notice.
A bump of version on PyPI would be nice, not sure if you want to go 2.0.1 there too, might be used in your roadmap thinking already, or of 2.0.0a is even allowed anymore these days.
I was of course going to report the issues to the bug tracker and just did. Unfortunately it also indicates that it's not a minor thing, that is changed, like a forgotten version bump, clearly more is in there missing for people who installed it during the time the wheel was not updated.
Yours, Kay