PSF: New pip resolver to roll out this year
PSF: New pip resolver to roll out this year
[Development] Posted Mar 24, 2020 17:23 UTC (Tue) by ris
The Python Software Foundation blog looks at some changes to pip, the Python Package installer, in the process of developing a new resolver. The new resolver will reduce inconsistency and be stricter, refusing to install two packages with incompatible requirements.
Also, this is a major change to a key part of pip - it's quite
possible there will initially be bugs. We would like to make sure that
those get caught before people start using the new version in
production. [...]
We recognize that everyone's work is being disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, and that many data scientists and medical researchers use Python and pip in their work. We want to make the upgrade process as smooth and bug-free as possible for our users; if you can help us, you'll be helping each other.