[BangPypers] Do you pin your requirements.txt ?

Saager Mhatre saager.mhatre at gmail.com
Thu Sep 12 21:03:08 CEST 2013


On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 6:16 PM, Aditya Laghate <aditya at thinrhino.net.in>wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 05:50:27PM +0530, Vineet Naik wrote:
> > I always pin requirements. Here is a related article on the topic -
> > http://nvie.com/posts/pin-your-packages/
>
> Interesting blog link.
>
> I did like the idea of using '==' instead of '>='


IMHO, it's (almost) always a good idea to pin to specific version, i.e. ==
However, contrary to the advice in the post, pessimistic versioning (Foo >=
1.0 <2.0) is a good idea if you know for sure that Foo adheres to semantic
versioning <http://semver.org/>.

Just saying...
- d


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