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bottle.py is a fast and simple micro-framework for python web-applications.
http://bottlepy.org/
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download last stable #1135

Closed voxspox closed 2 months ago

voxspox commented 5 years ago

Hi, I just wanted to download (via script) the last stable version but I found no (stable) URI which points to the last stable version. The last dev version is easily accessible via https://bottlepy.org/bottle.py or the master branch.

Suggestion: Manage your code (unstable versions) in the 'develop' branch and only merge stable versions into 'master' branch.

defnull commented 5 years ago

What's the use-case to download the latest stable release? If you do not care about API stability, you can use the master branch (which is always tested and usable). If you do care about API stability, then you should only fetch the newest patch for a known release (e.g. https://bottlepy.org/docs/0.12/bottle.py) and not automatically upgrade to a new release, even if its stable.

defnull commented 5 years ago

Oh, and https://bottlepy.org/docs/stable/bottle.py works. That is probably what you want :)

voxspox commented 5 years ago

The website says on the main page: Install the latest stable release with pip install bottle or download bottle.py (unstable) into your project directory. I conclude that there is a stable and an unstable version available. Usually the unstable/development version has new features and also bugs. When it becomes reliable it will become the new stable version.

Because the website says master is unstable and the bottle.py in master has version 0.13-dev (there is an extra development in it) I did not expect what you said above: the master branch (which is always tested and usable).

Maybe you want to be more clear in the docs :)

Thanks for the stable link.

defnull commented 2 months ago

The thing is master is unstable. It may break at any time. But since I only push to master if all tests pass, that's usually not an issue. Anyway, 0.13 is released now and I hope to get new releases out of the door more quickly from now on, so people do not have to rely on the development version.