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Pip installs old version of my package

$ pip install pywps
Collecting pywps
    Downloading pywps-3.2.6.tar.gz (123kB)
...

If you go to https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pywps/ the version 3.2.6 is not even mentioned there.

It's only mentioned at https://pypi.python.org/simple/pywps/

Any idea, why 3.2.6 is prefered over 4.0.0?

Thanks

P.S. Older responses do not seem to apply to this case.

Jachym
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If you run the command with a verbose option (and an up to date pip), you can see what's happening. 

pip install -v pywps

It gives the following output:

  1 location(s) to search for versions of pywps:
  * https://pypi.python.org/simple/pywps/
  ...
    Skipping link https://pypi.python.org/packages/f9/93/5c2c4c95e53b6193bf239ecc49cb859fd77d181311145edd13ba4cd39e09/pywps-4.0.0-py3.5.egg#md5=338eb2e56a36abc684800961b7e4ee0a (from https://pypi.python.org/simple/pywps/); unsupported archive format: .egg
  ...
    Found link https://pypi.python.org/packages/c8/e6/8b88bc134f714f73e296466ab6b5b5a5ad96c44d35dcbcf41ccf9b76a283/pywps-3.2.6.tar.gz#md5=32bbbefacce633baa9147c74e4416c98 (from https://pypi.python.org/simple/pywps/), version: 3.2.6
  Using version 3.2.6 (newest of versions: 3.2.6)
  "GET /packages/c8/e6/8b88bc134f714f73e296466ab6b5b5a5ad96c44d35dcbcf41ccf9b76a283/pywps-3.2.6.tar.gz HTTP/1.1" 200 123280
  Downloading pywps-3.2.6.tar.gz (123kB)

The egg file is ignored because .egg files are not supported in pip. They were supported by easy_install. I think the best solution is to start producing wheel files, which I think for pywps can be universal. If you also want to keep supporting the easy_install command, you can upload the tar.gz file or keep producing eggs.

SiggyF
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You can install version 4.0.0 via pip straight from github:

sudo pip install git+https://github.com/geopython/pywps.git@master#egg=pywps
user2390182
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  • I know, how to install required version, I'm asking how to (if that is possible) install the later version by default the "fast way". – Jachym Jan 23 '17 at 09:04
  • The output of the common `pip install pywps==4.0.0` will tell you that `3.2.6` is the only version available that way. – user2390182 Jan 23 '17 at 12:34