Open omry opened 3 years ago
+1 for this feature. This has become troublesome for our project esp with the pypi size limit. Manually deleting all older packages every [n] weeks is difficult to manage.
+1 for this feature. We find it very nice to be able to publish to a "latest" channel just by providing pip install --pre <package>
(compared to having to provide a separate index, separate infra for publishing dev versions) and are in the process of switching over to that model as it is not explicitly discouraged anywhere. However, there aren't many projects doing this, and there isn't a good retention policy which created a bit of hesitation on our end to pull the trigger. As our project is tiny, this shouldn't matter much, we'll be below the project size limit.
Currently we have the two different packages like the tensorflow ecosystem. However, that creates a namespace collision. If you install accidentally both packages (for which there is no way to automatically defend against using only pip), the environment can get into a bad state that can get only resolved by uninstalling both packages.
I would like to open a discussion around what might nightly build support in pypi look like. First, a small IRC paste:
Something that could be nice is a way to maintain X last nightly packages automatically and have older nightlies be automatically deleted.
The pip client can potentially provide a specific error for people who are trying to install deleted nightly packages, something like:
Pip should also not show nightly packages in the message it normally shows when there is a mismatch version number.