[Distutils] [issue25] Prefer release versions of projects

[Chris Galvan]

I have attached a proposed patch for this feature request to the tracker 
issue, which implements the feature as described in the tracker.  
Passing an '--allow-dev' flag to easy_install will tell setuptools to 
accept qualifiers in the versions of the projects(returns the behavior 
to its previous state).

Chris Galvan wrote:
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> New submission from Chris Galvan &lt;cgalvan at mail.utexas.edu&gt;:
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> Currently there is no ability to declare a preference for a release of a
> project.  For example, I'd like to say my project requires "a release of
> foo &gt;= 2.0, &lt;3.0".   I'd then like easy_install/setuptools
> to only pick releases (no qualifiers of any kind alpha, beta, dev, etc.)
> of 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, ....   As a further example, it should
> totally ignore '2.5a1' and '2.6_r15669' and instead would fetch '2.2' 
> if it
> existed in the same repository.
>
> It would be nice if this was the default behavior unless the user 
> specified an
> additional flag to accept qualifiers(which would return the behavior 
> to its
> previous state).  Also, it would fall back on eggs with qualifiers if no
> releases were found.
>
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> messages: 48
> nosy: cgalvan
> priority: feature
> status: chatting
> title: Prefer release versions of projects
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