On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 6:08 AM, Marcus Smith <qwc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > If I have a shared dependency between 2 packages but they have pinned >> different versions of a 3rd package, is there a way to override this? >> >> Most of the time when people pin a version they are doing it because they >> have tested up to that version, but it doesn't always mean they don't work >> with a later version. >> >> For example: >> >> P1: >> sqlalchemy==0.7.6 >> >> P2: >> sqlalchemy >> >> >> P3: >> sqlalchemy==0.8 >> >> >> >> If I want to to override this for all packages and tell them its fine to >> just use 0.8.1 and ignore whatever they were pinned at, can I? >> >> > pip requirement files do this. > items in the requirement file override found dependency versions. > http://www.pip-installer.org/en/latest/cookbook.html#requirements-files > > Marcus > > We use easy_install/setup.py instead of pip requirements files because there is no way to configure pip to look at a different index via an application configuration file (or at least we couldn't find one). With easy_install we are able to do: [easy_install] index_url = <corp index> and everything works. With pip it seems to only support a system wide/user wide configuration but not for a specific application/repo. Thanks for the info though!
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