[Distutils] pip - installation of the latest stable version of package

[Donald Stufft]

On Jul 24, 2013, at 1:10 PM, Carl Meyer <carl at oddbird.net> wrote:

> On 07/21/2013 01:38 PM, Piotr Dobrogost wrote:
>> Does pip support installation of the latest _stable_ version of package
>> (for all versions which adhere to PEP386)?
>> Related - "Do not upload dev releases at PyPI" by Tarek Ziadé
>> <http://ziade.org/2011/02/15/do-not-upload-dev-releases-at-pypi/>at
>> http://ziade.org/2011/02/15/do-not-upload-dev-releases-at-pypi/
>> <http://ziade.org/2011/02/15/do-not-upload-dev-releases-at-pypi/>
> 
> Yes. It's a new feature in the just-released pip 1.4; in fact it is now
> the default behavior. See the top entry in the pip 1.4 changelog:
> http://www.pip-installer.org/en/latest/news.html#changelog
> 
> Carl
> 
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Technically it uses PEP440 but I believe they have the same rules as far as stable or unstable.

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