On Fri, 18 Feb 2022 at 23:53, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > When pip resolves dependencies, it does it in the simplest possible way > that *usually* works. It has no satisfiability solver. > > "No effort is made to ensure that the dependencies of all packages are > fulfilled simultaneously. This can lead to environments that are broken > in subtle ways, if packages installed earlier in the order have > incompatible dependency versions relative to packages installed later in > the order." > > https://www.anaconda.com/blog/understanding-conda-and-pip
This is no longer true - pip incorporated a proper dependency resolver in 2020. Paul _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/RL4UQMN2E7XZHY45AKOJ7XZNZEWSRM7O/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/