[Distutils] Request for comment: Proposal to change behaviour of pip install

[Ralf Gommers]

On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 12:16 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On 26 Jun 2016 23:37, "Pradyun Gedam" <pradyunsg at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello List!
> >
> > I feel it’s fine to hold back the other changes for later but the
> > upgrade-strategy change should get shipped out to the world as quickly as
> > possible. Even how the change is exposed the user can also be discussed
> later.
> >
> > I request the list members to focus on only the change of the default
> > upgrade strategy to be non-eager.
> >
> > Does anyone have any concerns regarding the change of the default upgrade
> > strategy to be non-eager? If not, let’s get just that shipped out as
> soon as possible.
>
> Pairing that change with an explicit "pip upgrade-all" command would get a
> +1 from me, especially if there was a printed warning when the new upgrade
> strategy skips packages the old one would have updated.
>
Please do not mix upgrade with upgrade-all. The latter is blocked by lack
of a SAT solver for a long time, and at the current pace that status may
not change for another couple of years. Also mixing these up is
unnecessary, and it was discussed last year on this list already to move
ahead with upgrade:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.distutils.devel/24219

Ralf
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