[Distutils] .. *explicitly* mark the package as pre-release

[anatoly techtonik]

Opened the feature request https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/1553

Why people don't try to make features optional? Posted rant to python-ideas.

On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 1:10 AM, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
> Hiding a release doesn’t hide it from the simple index, so installers will
> still find it.
>
> On Nov 30, 2013, at 4:59 PM, Richard Jones <richard at python.org> wrote:
>
> There is no way to mark a release as "pre-release" but you can hide it from
> view which would prevent an installer discovering any files related to the
> release. Log into PyPI and use the "releases" page for the project.
>
>
>
> On 30 November 2013 22:05, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> hi, please cc
>>
>> i want to release some versions to pypi, but hide them from installing
>> by explicitly marking as pre-release. i want to preserve versions
>> numbering as 0.1, 0.2 according to semver.org point 4. is that
>> possible?
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>> anatoly t.
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anatoly t.