Yeah, +1 from me too. Pip is one project where people will highly likely try out the pre-release versions.

+1 on pre-release wheels. I've seen the process in action

with SciPy, and it helped to catch at least one significant bug.

2017-10-20 8:30 GMT-05:00 Paul Moore <p.f.moore@gmail.com>:

On 20 October 2017 at 14:26, Matthew Brett <matthew.brett@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the heads-up.
>
> Will y'all be doing a PyPI pre-release so we can test with `pip
> install --pre -U pip`?

We've not yet decided on that. Traditionally I don't think we have
done so, but I'm inclined to think it's a good idea. It might not be
until noticeably closer to the release, though...

Paul

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