Hi,
while trying to vendor packages that depend on six, i noticed a
problematic implication
it is impossible to do this without patching those modules, as such
adding a fragile maintenance burden.
in order to elevate that i propose creating a mechanism that allows to
physically or virtually map sets of interdependent libraries (that are
prepared for it into a sub-package of the package vendor-ing it
this would elevate a few issues
a) removing the need to patch
b) making de-vendor-ing of exact versions trivial (just unpacked wheels
and adding it to the sub-packages __path__)
c) easing updates, as the vendor-ing turns into a process of fetching
the wheels and unpacking them into the package folder
i do have some implementation ideas, but i would like to hear the
opinions of others before proposing an exact implementation
-- Ronny
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