[Distutils] Installed Extras Metadata

[Paul Moore]

On 26 January 2018 at 16:07, Pradyun Gedam <pradyunsg at gmail.com> 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 :-)

Paul