[lxml-dev] 2.0alpha too visible

[Stefan Behnel]

Hi Ian,

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).

hmmm, I would like to keep 2.0alpha visible as there were some changes (and
some more to come) that people should be aware of, especially when writing new
code. So I want it uploaded on PyPI and I want it in the list of version you
see when going to

    http://pypi.python.org/pypi/lxml

I personally consider it a bug in easy_install that it always takes the newest
version without paying attention to the development status (which is clearly
stated as "3 - alpha" in the Trove list), or at least to the version string.
It doesn't even provide an option to control that. I just wrote to the
distutils list about that, we'll see.

Stefan