April 30, 2010
9:01 p.m.
On 2010-04-30, at 1:38 PM, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
There's a big problem in our ecosystem: PyPI + our various installers don't have the concept of "beta" release. Any new release is considered to be the latest release.
Until it's fixed, I think we should avoid pushing any betas to PyPI, especially zc.buildout, because many buildout instances out there are getting upgraded automatically. Leading to a wave of problems when there's an issue in the release.
I propose that we "hide" the beta version on PyPI until all problems are cleared u, so people don't auto-upgrade their buildouts.
Hiding a release in PyPI does not seem to make 'easy_install NAME' *not* fetch it, does it? -srid