pip install djangorestframework-jsonapi fails

[mblayman]

Running pip install djangorestframework-jsonapi fails as documented on Read the Docs. I believe the reason is that pip fails to recognize all the available version numbers appropriately.

According to the setuptools docs, the - in the version number makes the posted version a "post-release" number. https://pythonhosted.org/setuptools/setuptools.html#specifying-your-project-s-version

Here is the output I saw when I tried to run the command:

$ pip install djangorestframework-jsonapi
Downloading/unpacking djangorestframework-jsonapi
  Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement djangorestframework-jsonapi \
(from versions: 2.0.0-alpha.1, 2.0.0-alpha.2, 2.0.0-alpha.3, 2.0.0-alpha, 2.0.0-beta.1)
Cleaning up...
No distributions matching the version for djangorestframework-jsonapi
Storing debug log for failure in /home/matt/.pip/pip.log

I don't know for sure, but my guess is that in the absence of an actual version (i.e., 2.0.0), pip gives up when it only finds post release versions.

[mblayman]

I should add that pip install djangorestframework-jsonapi==2.0.0-beta.1 does work. Maybe the solution until the project comes out of beta with a 2.0.0 release is to document pip install with the specific version specifier.

[kevin-brown]

The latest release is 2.0.0-beta.1, which pip will not automatically install because it is an unstable version. The older versions, 1.3.2 and below, are not available on PyPI because it was previously called rest_framework_ember.

You can still install the beta versions by explicitly specifying them.

pip install djangorestframework-jsonapi==2.0.0-beta.1

[holandes22]

alternatively, you can use the --pre flag

pip install --pre djangorestframework-jsonapi

[mblayman]

At some point, pip fixed this problem in a newer version. I tried pip install djangorestframework-jsonapi on my Mac this morning and it worked without issue. My Mac has pip version 7.0.3.

The command failed on the pip version that comes with Ubuntu 14.04. That version is 1.5.4.