[TIP] Why does tox use "pip install --pre" by default?

Tres Seaver tseaver at palladion.com
Tue Sep 30 09:51:13 PDT 2014


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On 09/30/2014 01:50 AM, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> I think it's useful to be able to test both with prereleases (to
> catch upcoming issues, if PyPI prereleases catch on) and with final
> package versions (to make sure your package works when your users
> attempt to pip install it today).  For this reason I think it would be
> good to have both a command-line switch and a tox.ini option to set
> the maintainer's preferred default.

Exactly so.


Tres.
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