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[Marcus Smith]

> maintainers.  The way pip works now, every time I do a release
> candidate, pip automatically installs it, even though I only upload it
>

an option to exclude pre-releases (or in reverse, an option to allow them)
does seem overdue.
reasons not to do this? anyone? links to the most relevant
conversations/posts from the past?



> well), but rather, just set the classifier for the download like you
> were supposed to in the first place, and it will just work.  With this
> change if I (the package maintainer) do the right thing, pip does the
> right thing.  The way it is now, if I do the right thing, pip does the
> wrong thing


it's not clear that trove classifiers is the consensus on how an installer
should know about the python version.
surfacing "requires-python" in pypi for installers (when metadata-version
>=1.2 actually becomes pervasive) seems like the right idea.
but maybe an option to look at classifiers in the short term? not sure.

Marcus
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