Should support installing prereleases about mpm HOT 3 CLOSED

It is not at all clear though which release is the "latest".

Suppose I release version 2.0.0 in January, version 3.0.0 in June and version 2.0.1 in July. Which one is the latest?

I think GitHub does not know about version numbers, only tag names and dates.

Using the "created_at" date is probably a good compromise.

json = Import["https://api.github.com/repos/szhorvat/IGraphM/releases", "JSON"];
json = Replace[json, x : {__Rule} :> Association[x], {0, Infinity}];

latest = SortBy[json, #"created_at" &] // Select[Not[#draft] &] // Last

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Those are good points. I think "latest" should be left as default/optional as it is now, and behave as GitHub defines it. I don't want 'latest' to mean something different than it means in context of the specific paclet repository, here GitHub.

It should probably not be advertised so much though. We can introduce e.g. "newest" version spec which will take the latest(by date) from those which are fetched.

And which are fetched should be affected by options "AllowDrafts" and "AllowPrereleases". By default both should be False, imo, because most of users will be interested in latest stable release.

Another option that comes to my mind is "Release", which should take "latest", "newes", or a specific version tag, but should also allow operators like MinimalBy[Key["created_at"]], what do you think? I guess that is the least important issue here.

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@szhorvat as of v0.5.1 this should install the most recent release even if it is a prerelease:

MPMInstall[author, paclet, "AllowPrereleases" -> True]

see release notes and let me know if that works.

Drafts are not supported yet because you need to be authenticated by GH and have push rights to fetch them. Have to think how make that user friendly and robust.

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