kaxil commented on a change in pull request #8513: URL: https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/8513#discussion_r412922247
########## File path: README.md ########## @@ -87,6 +88,34 @@ For further information, please visit the [Airflow Wiki](https://cwiki.apache.or Official container (Docker) images for Apache Airflow are described in [IMAGES.rst](IMAGES.rst). +## Installing from PyPI + +Airflow is published as `apache-airflow` package in PyPi. Installing it however might be sometimes tricky +because Airflow is a bit of both a library and application. Libraries usually keep their dependencies open and +Applications usually pin them but we should do neither and both at the same time. We decided to keep +our dependencies as open as possible (in setup.py) so users are not limited to certain versions of +dependencies. This means that from time to time `pip install apache-airflow` will not work or will +produce unusable Airflow installation. + +In order to have repeatable installation, however starting from Airlfow 1.10.10 we also keep a set of +"known-to-be-working" requirements.txt in the requirements folder. Those "known-to-be-working" Review comment: ```suggestion "known-to-be-working" `requirements.txt` in the requirements folder. Those "known-to-be-working" ``` ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected]
