[Buildbot-devel] sqlalchemy snafu part deux

[Dustin J. Mitchell]

Sorry, that took me a while, but I added the suggested fix (limiting
to <= 0.7.9)

Dustin

On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Dustin J. Mitchell <dustin at v.igoro.us> wrote:
>
> On Dec 21, 2012 10:50 AM, "Dan Kegel" <dank at kegel.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Dustin J. Mitchell <dustin at v.igoro.us>
>> wrote:
>> > Someone needs to have a talk with the sqlalchemy devs about their
>> > version naming.
>>
>> It's standard debian sorting, I think; 0.8.0b2 < 0.8.0.
>>
>> > Also, why is everyone using their betas?
>>
>> In this case, I'm using it because I grabbed buildbot from the 0.8.7
>> branch of git,
>> which automatically grabs the latest version above 0.6 and below 0.8.
>> And since 0.8.0b2 < 0.8.0, QED.
>>
>> Or are you asking whether python's ecosystem should have a way to
>> tag things as beta, and not give them out normally?
>
> I was mostly just griping that the beta releases have caused a lot of pain
> that we really can't fix in already-released versions of Buildbot.
>
> In particular, putting betas on pypi is a bit mean to users, since it coopts
> anyone unlucky enough to install as a beta tester.
>
> But now I see what you mean about version comparisons.  The change you
> suggest is correct.
>
> Dustin