> On May 15, 2015, at 9:22 PM, Robert Collins <robe...@robertcollins.net> wrote: > > On 16 May 2015 at 11:08, Marcus Smith <qwc...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Why not start with pip at least being a "simple" fail-on-conflict resolver >> (vs the "1st found wins" resolver it is now)... >> >> You'd "backtrack" for the sake of re-walking when new constraints are found, >> but not for the purpose of solving conflicts. >> >> I know you're motivated to solve Openstack build issues, but many of the >> issues I've seen in the pip tracker, I think would be solved without the >> backtracking resolver you're trying to build. > > Well, I'm scratching the itch I have. If its too hard to get something > decent, sure I might back off in my goals, but I see no point aiming > for something less than all the other language specific packaging > systems out there have.
So what makes the other language specific packaging systems different? As far as I know all of them have complete archives (e.g. they are like PyPI where they have a lot of versions, not like Linux Distros). What can we learn from how they solved this? --- Donald Stufft PGP: 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA
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