July 10, 2020

How to Install Release Candidates

How to install release candidates Today on Twitter, one of the core maintainers of pytest announced the release of pytest 6.0.0rc1, and also asked to install and run it, and report if there are any problems. https://twitter.com/nicoddemus/status/1281385522422784005 Ok, but how do you install a release candidate? If you just do a pip install pytest, the current latest release gets installed, which is 5.4.3 as the time of writing. Turns out, there are a couple of options…...