[Numpy-discussion] Numpy 1.11.0b2 released

[Ralf Gommers]

On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 11:03 PM, Charles R Harris <
charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 2:36 PM, Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> Maybe we should upload to pypi? This allows us to upload binaries for osx
>> at least, and in general will make the beta available to anyone who does
>> 'pip install --pre numpy'. (But not regular 'pip install numpy', because
>> pip is clever enough to recognize that this is a prerelease and should not
>> be used by default.)
>>
>> (For bonus points, start a campaign to convince everyone to add --pre to
>> their ci setups, so that merely uploading a prerelease will ensure that it
>> starts getting tested automatically.)
>> On Jan 28, 2016 12:51 PM, "Charles R Harris" <charlesr.harris at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I hope I am pleased to announce the Numpy 1.11.0b2 release. The first
>>> beta was a damp squib due to missing files in the released source files,
>>> this release fixes that. The new source filese may be downloaded from
>>> sourceforge, no binaries will be released until the mingw tool chain
>>> problems are sorted.
>>>
>>> Please test and report any problem.
>>>
>>
> So what happens if I use twine to upload a beta? Mind, I'd give it a try
> if pypi weren't an irreversible machine of doom.
>

One of the things that will probably happen but needs to be avoided is that
1.11b2 becomes the visible release at https://pypi.python.org/pypi/numpy.
By default I think the status of all releases but the last uploaded one (or
highest version number?) is set to hidden.

Other ways that users can get a pre-release by accident are:
- they have pip <1.4 (released in July 2013)
- other packages have a requirement on numpy with a prerelease version (see
https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/reference/pip_install/#pre-release-versions)

Ralf
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