PackagingWG/2020-11-10-pip-teamwide-meeting

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Nov 10th, 2020

Participants:

• Ernest W. Durbin III

• Georgia Bullen

• Sumana Harihareswara

• Pradyun Gedam

• Bernard Tyers

Agenda:

• Issues that need followup

  • #9011 https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/9011

    • Fix is in https://github.com/sarugaku/resolvelib/pull/60

      • looks like TP needs help developing a good test for this - will be Pradyun (as far as us counting on who does it)

  • https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/7744 - Warn users about dependency conflicts when updating other packages

    • Pradyun’s working on a patch – a few different parts, one is done

      • Nicole followup on improving the message - https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/7744#issuecomment-718396220

        • TODO: followup conversation

  • https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/8785 New resolver: Failure despite correct version numbers, when extras and already-installed package are encountered together

    • Pradyun to look at this before tomorrow’s meeting

  • https://github.com/pypa/pip/pull/9040 - Bernard, backtracking error message

    • run nox -s lint{.backtick} locally to print the error message locally and then fix things up

    • TODO: help Bernard grab Sumana’s commit – DONE

      • https://github.com/pypa/pip/commit/e6acca646abcaaac7515da9b964d5b5291264142

• Nicole did some analysis on the survey about what pip should do when upgrading another package (take already-installed packages into account?) and filed a few issues – #9094 & #9095

  • For Pradyun to look into

• pip 20.3 release next week?

  • TODO: Sumana to give Georgia some language to circulate to civic tech groups – DONE

  • Pradyun has feeling but not certainty that next week is a reasonable target