Version number in master branch is the same as last released version

[shaib]

Hi,

What the subject says. This is an issue for me, because

• I want to run tests against DRF as it is in master (among other reasons -- because I run against Django's main and Breaking change in Django 4.2 #8539)
• I run my tests in dockers
• I have many dependencies, and in order to save both my time and PyPI bandwidth resources, I build my test image from a base image, which includes, among other things, the latest released version.
• When pip, after cloning the git repo, finds out that the version there is the same version it already has installed, it keeps the existing one.

I suspect I'm not the only one in this position, but the current way version numbers are handled seems to have been going on for a long time, so I'm wondering if changing it may be considered.

[shaib]

Well, I can solve my issue by adding --no-deps --ignore-installed to the pip install command (--ignore-installed alone will happily also replace dependencies of DRF). But it feels a little dirty.

[tomchristie]

but the current way version numbers are handled seems to have been going on for a long time, so I'm wondering if changing it may be considered.

I guess we'd probably just want to leave things as they are yup.

Open to alternatives, but trying to keep changes to the project at a minimum really, so?... 🤷‍♂️