DOC: document -dev syntactic sugar #318
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| Yes please :) I thought maybe "3.11-dev" would get me the current tip of main. Oh well... :( |
| It would be nice to get this into the documentation! |
| Hi @vsafonkin and @marko-zivic-93, could anyone have a look please ? |
| Hi @neutrinoceros, we will take a look at this, thank you for your contribution. |
vsafonkin approved these changes May 6, 2022
dmitry-shibanov approved these changes May 6, 2022
hugovk reviewed May 31, 2022
| - For every minor version of Python, expect only the latest patch to be preinstalled. | ||
| - If `3.8.1` is installed for example, and `3.8.2` is released, expect `3.8.1` to be removed and replaced by `3.8.2` in the tools cache. | ||
| - If the exact patch version doesn't matter to you, specifying just the major and minor version will get you the latest preinstalled patch version. In the previous example, the version spec `3.8` will use the `3.8.2` Python version found in the cache. | ||
| - Use `-dev` instead of a patch number (e.g., `3.11-dev`) to install the latest release of a minor version, *alpha and beta releases included*. |
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"alpha, beta and release candidates included" ?
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Yup that would be more accurate, sorry I missed that
tdfacer pushed a commit to ifit/setup-python that referenced this pull request Oct 7, 2025
DOC: document -dev syntactic sugar
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Description:
Add missing documentation on how to install alpha and beta releases
Related issue:
fix #177
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