[lxml-dev] 2.0alpha too visible

[Martijn Faassen]

Ian Bicking wrote:
> I think the 2.0alpha release might be too visible.  If you do 
> "easy_install lxml" you get that version.
> 
> One way to help this would be to not upload 2.0alpha to PyPI, but 
> instead just put a link to a tarball with #egg=lxml-twoalpha or 
> something, so it won't be considered newer than 1.3 (but you could 
> install it with easy_install lxml==twoalpha).

I've run into it trying to get 2.0alpha several times too in buildout 
processes (which use setuptools underneath). Hiding 2.0alpha better 
might help.

That said, in my opinion it's really a problem that we need to tackle on 
the buildout or framework end, being more explicit about what versions 
we need. This keeps happening with all kinds of other libraries as well 
and is not really the library's fault. (Buildout already has a feature 
to prefer released versions which can help a bit here)

Regards,

Martijn