This (hopefully) adds the ability to upload test releases (alpha, beta, whatever) to a less visible place on anaconda.
The goal is to make it easy for us to create and test possible releases while ensuring that the typical user never installs a pre-release by accident. pip has this built in to some extent -- if a release has text like "alpha" or "beta" in the name of the release then pip will not install it unless one uses a special flag (--pre).
Conda doesn't have something equivalent but does have the concept of labels. Packages by default are uploaded to the "main" channel; when a user does conda install -c vpython vpython then conda checks the main channel for the user vpython on anaconda.org. One can have other labels; this adds one called pre-release.
We can fairly easily install those by including the label but ordinary users won't have any reason to do that.
This (hopefully) adds the ability to upload test releases (alpha, beta, whatever) to a less visible place on anaconda.
The goal is to make it easy for us to create and test possible releases while ensuring that the typical user never installs a pre-release by accident. pip has this built in to some extent -- if a release has text like "alpha" or "beta" in the name of the release then pip will not install it unless one uses a special flag (
--pre).Conda doesn't have something equivalent but does have the concept of labels. Packages by default are uploaded to the "main" channel; when a user does
conda install -c vpython vpythonthen conda checks the main channel for the user vpython on anaconda.org. One can have other labels; this adds one calledpre-release.We can fairly easily install those by including the label but ordinary users won't have any reason to do that.