[Distutils] .. *explicitly* mark the package as pre-release

[Donald Stufft]

Hiding a release doesn’t hide it from the simple index, so installers will still find it.

On Nov 30, 2013, at 4:59 PM, Richard Jones <richard at python.org> wrote:

> There is no way to mark a release as "pre-release" but you can hide it from view which would prevent an installer discovering any files related to the release. Log into PyPI and use the "releases" page for the project.
> 
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> On 30 November 2013 22:05, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com> wrote:
> hi, please cc
> 
> i want to release some versions to pypi, but hide them from installing
> by explicitly marking as pre-release. i want to preserve versions
> numbering as 0.1, 0.2 according to semver.org point 4. is that
> possible?
> --
> anatoly t.
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