Announce: PyPrimes 0.2.1a

alister alister.nospam.ware at ntlworld.com
Fri Jan 9 04:05:53 EST 2015


On Fri, 09 Jan 2015 11:50:26 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 11:41 AM, Steven D'Aprano
> <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
>> "oh, pip did the wrong thing again? you can fix that by standing on one
>> leg,
>> sacrificing a goat to the Great Old Dark Ones, deleting these files, or
>> possibly some other ones, and if the phase of the moon is exactly right
>> it will behave as you want..."
> 
> Replacing an existing package, without changing the version number,
> *is* messy. It's not pip's fault that it's hard. That's like saying
> "Oops, I committed this to source control and pushed it out to all
> users, but there's a big file in it and I want to delete it so they
> don't have to download it". Sure, that's possible, but it's not a normal
> action, so you'll have to jump through some hoops to make it all work
> properly.
> 
> Or have you been having this whole sacrificing a goat thing with a
> normal workflow?
> 
> ChrisA

why not simply cheat & call it V 0.2.3 :-) it is not as if there is any 
regulation concerning what can & cannot constitute a minor release it is 
all at your own discretion.




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