On Fri, 26 Jan 2018 at 23:10 Pradyun Gedam <pradyu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Resending coz I clicked the wrong button. > > On Fri, 26 Jan 2018 at 22:16 Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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 :-) > > >> > Yep, I am working on that. This is more of a short-term thing that I'm > thinking of, just in case the proper solver isn't ready in time for pip 10. > :) > And the resolver will need this extras-installed metadata as well. > Aside, I've just posted an update over at #988 -- > https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/988#issuecomment-360846457 -- about > the state of the resolver work and the aforementioned branch. > > >> Paul >> > > -- > > Pradyun >
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