[Catalog-sig] Use user-specific site-packages by default?

[Nick Coghlan]

On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 12:54 AM, Jim Fulton <jim at zope.com> wrote:
> pip will need to learn to prefer non-final releases.
>
> I was pressed to put buildout alpha and beta releases on a separate site
> because of the concern that they'd be installed inadvertently by pip.

FWIW, PEP 426 aims to address this by expressly requiring that all
pre-releases (dev, alpha, beta, release candidate) be excluded from
version specifiers by default, unless a pre-release is explicitly
mentioned as part of the specifier.

Cheers,
Nick.

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