[Pythonmac-SIG] Upgrade to pip 9.0.3 (due to TLS deprecation)

[Chris Jerdonek]

On Fri, Apr 6, 2018 at 6:25 AM Matthew Brett <matthew.brett at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 9:36 PM, Sumana Harihareswara <sh at changeset.nyc>
> wrote:
> > Mac users:
> >
> > If you are running macOS/OS X version 10.12 or older, you need to
> > upgrade to the latest pip (9.0.3) to connect to the Python Package Index
> > securely:
> >
> >     curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py | python
> >
> > Pip 9.0.3 supports TLSv1.2 when running under system Python on macOS <
> > 10.13. Official release notes: https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/news/
>
> I wanted to check with you, whether these changes are responsible for
> pip breaking for me in a extremely confusing way.
>
> What I observed was that pip was silently failing to find any packages
> on pypi, with no informative error.
>
> This was extremely confusing, because when I tried to do an upgrade, e.g.:
>
> $ pip install -U matplotlib
>
> it told me everything is up to date, when this isn't correct.  There
> is no other message to warn me what is going on.


Can you paste the input / output that you saw or are seeing — what you are
calling “breaking for me in a extremely confusing way”? On the GitHub issue
thread in which this was discussed, the understanding is that people
*would* see errors that would lead them in the right direction (e.g. SSL
errors). What you’re saying seems to conflict with that.

—Chris



>
> Of course I can't upgrade pip in the usual way, and I get told I am up
> to date, when I am not.
>
> $ python -m pip install -U pip
> Requirement already up-to-date: pip in
>
> /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/site-packages
>
> I assume there was meant to be some more informative message about
> what is happening?   Even with such a message this is going to cause a
> significant problem, but without it, it's going to cause total chaos.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Matthew
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