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

[Nick Coghlan]

On 25 Jul 2013 03:30, "Donald Stufft" <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
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> On Jul 24, 2013, at 1:10 PM, Carl Meyer <carl at oddbird.net> wrote:
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> > 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
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> > Carl
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> Technically it uses PEP440 but I believe they have the same rules as far
as stable or unstable.

Yeah, major items like release ordering and whether or not a version is a
pre-release stay the same.

The only ordering differences between 386 and 440 relate to some relatively
obscure edge cases where the spec in 386 differed from the behaviour of
existing tools without adequate justification. PEP 440 has the details.

Cheers,
Nick.

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