Resending coz I clicked the wrong button. On Fri, 26 Jan 2018 at 22:16 Paul Moore <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 26 January 2018 at 16:07, Pradyun Gedam <[email protected]> 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. :) 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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