Re: [Catalog-sig] Pypi silliness when finding dev versions
by Jim Fulton other posts by this author
Jun 10 2008 9:06PM messages near this date
Re: [Catalog-sig] Pypi silliness when finding dev versions
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Re: [Catalog-sig] Pypi silliness when finding dev versions
On Jun 10, 2008, at 3:54 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> > At the bottom, you can see multiple links for it. When easy_install
> > runs, it usually goes for the first link (which is from an old
> > package
> > description), not the one from the latest package.
>
> The simple API shows all links from all packages, not just from the
> latest package.
>
> In this case, it would help if PyPI would hide all URLs belonging to
> hidden releases.
>
> Would that be desirable?
It would be really bad.
It's important for old releases to remain visible so that applications
that depend on them can find them.
A better solution to this problem would be to hide dev releases. Dev
releases should never be uploaded to pypi.
Jim
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