Nick Coghlan added the comment: Unfortunately, Ned's right in highlighting a potential pip integration problem here: pip DOES NOT expose a supported Python API, but pip_tkinter currently imports APIs from within the pip package.
This means that somebody doing "pip install --upgrade pip" may break a version of the GUI that is implemented this way, contradicting our promise that a post-install "pip install --upgrade pip" is a fully supported operation that won't break anything else in CPython. That's 100% fine for a proof of concept that demonstrates the general principle of a Tkinter based package management GUI and it's integration into IDLE (and Upendra's work on that front looks excellent to me), but isn't reasonable for a version that actually lands in CPython as a supported component. Where this work could really help move the "Stable Python API for package management" discussion forward is by providing a clear set of use cases, as well as spelling out the internal pip APIs used to implement that feature in the proof-of-concept, The reason I believe that will be helpful is that one of the big problems in this area to date has been the lack of a clear statement of the problem that a stable Python API would be aimed at solving - "provide a stable API that meets the needs of the default package management GUI shipped with IDLE" is a far more tractable problem than "provide a stable API for pip". ---------- nosy: +dstufft _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue27051> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
