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Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2015 11:50:26 +1100
Subject: Re: Announce: PyPrimes 0.2.1a
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On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 11:41 AM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
> "oh, pip did the wrong thing again? you can fix that by standing on one leg,
> sacrificing a goat to the Great Old Dark Ones, deleting these files, or
> possibly some other ones, and if the phase of the moon is exactly right it
> will behave as you want..."

Replacing an existing package, without changing the version number,
*is* messy. It's not pip's fault that it's hard. That's like saying
"Oops, I committed this to source control and pushed it out to all
users, but there's a big file in it and I want to delete it so they
don't have to download it". Sure, that's possible, but it's not a
normal action, so you'll have to jump through some hoops to make it
all work properly.

Or have you been having this whole sacrificing a goat thing with a
normal workflow?

ChrisA