On 26 January 2018 at 16:07, Pradyun Gedam <pradyu...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Is there any other place where current functionality needs this >> information, *apart* from pip check? Are there any proposed additional >> features that might need it? > > Yes. I currently have a branch where during pip install, after the packages > to be installed are selected, it does a pip check on what would be the > installed packages if the installation is successful. This would mean that > if we do select an incompatible version for installation, pip install would > be able to print a warning.
I'd rather see us get a proper solver that would mean this should never happen :-) Paul _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
