[Zope-dev] ZODB3 3.9.0-dev-r77011 egg?!

[Andreas Jung]

--On 19. August 2008 12:56:43 -0400 Tres Seaver <tseaver at palladion.com> 
wrote:


>
>>> and why does buildout pick it over a stable release?
>>
>> Because buildout, like easy_install, will pick the newest available
>> version for a distribution. Fortunately, buildout has a prefer-stable
>> option so that you can tell it to prefer stable over alpha/beta/dev
>> releases. Also, in any serious situtation you'd want to pin your
>> versions, e.g. using the KGS [2] or a manual list.
>
> Uploading non-releases like this to public index locations has *got* to
> stop.  Frankly, they should all be removed:  anybody who is depending on
> them needs to run their own index.

+oo

Package sanity and package hygiene is the most important issue of PyPI
right now. PyPI requires a strong policy in order to keep PypI possible:
no uploading of development releases, no uploading for packages without a 
minimum set of metadata. PyPI has become a data toilet - unfortunately it 
is often hard to convinced people that their package uploads without 
metadata are crap.

Andreas
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 194 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/attachments/20080819/b93b18e6/attachment.bin