There is no option to make Pybuilder use pre-release versions of modules when resolving dependencies with pip about pybuilder

[arcivanov]

That said, that particular dependency cannot translate to the actual dependency expression. For example, if I add use_prerelease=True to the project.depends_on() it cannot be translated into the setuptools metadata, as the --pre is the feature of the installer and not the dependency metadata.

What you can do even now, I think, is try to use an expression like <1.0.0.dev0 and then this may cause pip to match 0.0.2.dev1234 without the --pre.

[lormico]

I want to thank you first for the heads up about the setuptools metadata :)
Unfortunately, setting the requirement expression as <1.0.0.dev0 didn't work, as the sample-library that gets installed is the one with version 0.1.0. Using ~=0.2.0.dev0 though did the trick.

[arcivanov]

Thanks, that's a good feature to add. I'll see if I can squeeze this in this weekend.

[lormico]

Thanks a lot!

[arcivanov]

@lormico did it work? 😄