proposal: test against `lightgbm` nightly packages?

[jameslamb]

Motivation

As of lightgbm-org/LightGBM#7227, LightGBM now publishes nightly Python packages.

I hope you'll consider testing against the nightlies here, so we can mutually fix compatibility issues before releases go out.

We (LightGBM) have been doing that with scikit-learn nightlies for a few years now and have found it very useful.

If you do take this up, please report any issues you find at https://github.com/lightgbm-org/LightGBM/issues.

Thanks very much for your time and consideration.

Description

To test against the latest development version of lightgbm, you can install them like this:

pip install \
    --no-deps \
    --index-url https://pypi.anaconda.org/lightgbm-packages/simple \
    'lightgbm>=4.6.0a0'

We're publishing an sdist and wheels for all of the same platforms that are published to pypi.org (https://pypi.org/project/lightgbm/#files).

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[c-bata]

Thank you for the proposal! We'd love to consider this. I'll sync with the core team to see how we can integrate the nightly tests into our workflow. Will get back to you here in about a week!