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Easier way to pin to "latest" release

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
github, python

Research direction

Read issue 85 and inspect the repository's current GitHub tags and release process first. Compare the proposed installable Python package with a branch tracking the latest tag; done means one agreed, documented way for reporting users to pin the latest release.

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Description

low priority

The GitHub tags make it easy to pin to a specific release, but we also need an easy way to pin to the "latest" release. This is needed for the reporting.

One option is to actually release the test suite as a installable package (see https://github.com/data-apis/array-api-tests/issues/85).

Another idea would be to have a branch, separate from master, that gets updated with the latest tag whenever we release. This is fairly simple but an issue is that it's a quite different release process from any other Python package, so it may confuse people. A package would be a lot less confusing to people.

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Python
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Merged PRs (30d)
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