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More details here: https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/5216#issuecomment-7446054... "PyPI is shutting down the API that pip search used, because the design of that API was such that it made it easy for people to overwhelm and take down PyPI…

comment by guerby · 2021-01-02 · in PyPI XMLRPC Search endpoint remains disabled due to ongoing request volume

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Remove the Pip Search Command

story by SirOibaf · 2020-12-15 · 1 comment

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Is pip dieing?

story by kouzant · 2020-12-15 · 0 comments

…API was disabled in part because its usage has dramatically increased in the last few months: https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/5216#issuecomment-7446585... and PyPI can't handle the traffic. I wonder why the increase in traffic?

comment by wiml · 2020-12-15 · in Pip search pretty much broken globally

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New Pip resolver takes a long time to complete

story by josmek · 2020-12-03 · 43 comments

We changed the URL from https://github.com/pypa/pip/pull/9177 to the first link that the main comment there ( https://github.com/pypa/pip/pull/9177#issuecomment-735830828 ) is pointing HN readers to. I presume that's the most informative…

comment by dang · 2020-11-30 · in Python Pip 20.3 Released with new resolver

…around their CI infrastructure, and I noted the use of a temporary RAM disk to speed-up tests: https://github.com/pypa/pip/blob/master/.azure-pipelines/scr... I'm very surprised. Is this common?

comment by cosmic_quanta · 2020-11-30 · in Python Pip 20.3 Released with new resolver

Yes, the new resolver is the highlight. Permalink to the release notes: https://github.com/pypa/pip/blob/c31c148a5b1d87591862c715adc...

comment by groodt · 2020-11-30 · in Python Pip 20.3 Released with new resolver

Permalink to the release notes: https://github.com/pypa/pip/blob/c31c148a5b1d87591862c715adc...

comment by groodt · 2020-11-30 · in Python Pip 20.3 Released with new resolver

…is being posted is because of: > The new resolver now resolves packages in a deterministic order. ( https://github.com/pypa/pip/pull/9100 ) [1] https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/news/#id1

comment by tgb · 2020-11-30 · in Python Pip 20.3 Released with new resolver

Since this pull isn’t very helpful, the NEWS file with what’s changed is at https://github.com/pypa/pip/blob/master/NEWS.rst#203-2020-11...

comment by misnome · 2020-11-30 · in Python Pip 20.3 Released with new resolver

…the legacy systems upon which they are built. This will be the end of a 7+ year GitHub issue: https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/988 Python is an old language (older than Java) and its packaging systems are often the butt of many jokes.…

comment by groodt · 2020-11-19 · in Changes to the pip dependency resolver in 20.3

…in a file and applying your usual UNIX permissions. FHS has absolutely nothing to do with it. [1]: https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/5599 [2]: https://web.archive.org/web/20181021091049/https://github.co... [3]:…

comment by soraminazuki · 2020-11-09 · in One Week of NixOS

…making packaging easier to splitting dev and production dependencies. Consider me a huge fan. [1] https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/8511#issuecomment-6651402...

comment by abalaji · 2020-08-08 · in Poetry – Python dependency management and packaging

…as of now, although it is being actively worked on [1], and they did secure some funding [2]. [1] https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/988 [2] https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2019/11/seeking-developers-for-...

comment by wdobbels · 2020-06-08 · in Python Wheels Crosses 90%

…in January 2021 or if there are show-stopping bugs in Python 2.7 that affect pip before then: https://github.com/pypa/pip/blob/master/docs/html/developmen...

comment by saila · 2020-04-25 · in Python 2 Is Dead

…is not a problem and you’re discouraging people by pointing out that they’re blame shifting: https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/4995 I honestly have zero faith that things will get better without a radical change in leadership.…

comment by earthboundkid · 2020-04-02 · in What the Heck Is Pyproject.toml?

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Pip 20.0 Is Broken

story by yuvadam · 2020-01-21 · 0 comments

This is great news, very excited to see the fruits of this labor. Skip to here for a bit more info: https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/988#issuecomment-55267449... An explanation of the problem and the solution's approach:…

comment by dimino · 2019-11-12 · in Seeking Developers for Paid Contract Improving Pip

…radar? EDIT: Quick Google search answered my question--the first result is an issue you filed here: https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/6505

comment by weberc2 · 2019-10-10 · in Bazel Release 1.0

…pip will not necessarily install a version of this library that satisfies both requirements" e.g. https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/2775

comment by Chris2048 · 2019-08-12 · in Python Is Eating the World

…for anyone who wants to educate themselves, read the issue description here and follow the links: https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/988

comment by korijn · 2019-08-12 · in Poetry: Dependency Management for Python

…when needed to resolve an upgrade. Its resolver isn't currently as complete as Conda's - see https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/988 . (On the other hand, the fact that Conda uses a real constraint solver has apparently been causing trouble…

comment by geofft · 2019-08-12 · in Python Is Eating the World

…pip runs into trouble in cases where transitive dependencies don't genuinely conflict, too. See https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/988 - this is a bug / acknowledged deficiency, and there is work in progress towards fixing it.

comment by geofft · 2019-08-12 · in Python Is Eating the World

…so isn't mandatory. I'm not sure how they could make it mandatory without breaking everyone? [1] https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/988

comment by allover · 2019-07-29 · in Malicious code in the purescript NPM installer

…I wondered how much maintenance pip even needs. Shouldn't it be kinda stable? But looking at https://github.com/pypa/pip/graphs/commit-activity it doesn't seem so.

comment by bhaak · 2019-07-07 · in “Only five people maintain Python-pip”

…attacks. This surely doesn't help that argument, but I'm not sure if it hurts it either. [1] https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/6469

comment by JackC · 2019-05-10 · in From Collisions to Chosen-Prefix Collisions Application to Full SHA-1 [pdf]

The article links to https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/5874 which proposes exactly this.

comment by di · 2019-05-01 · in Distributions vs. Releases: Why Python Packaging Is Hard

https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/5874 This seems like reasonable suggestion.

comment by your-nanny · 2019-05-01 · in Distributions vs. Releases: Why Python Packaging Is Hard

…`python3 -m pip install`? Hell, it even breaks itself: pip install --upgrade pip # => pip unusable https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/5447 https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/5221 etc

comment by singularity2001 · 2018-12-22 · in Python 3: Ten years later

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Python pip information leak

story by lkarsten · 2018-09-08 · 0 comments

…be corrected. They're wrong, and insulting a sound, well maintained project, without basis. [1] https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/988

comment by allover · 2018-06-06 · in Things I Regret About Node.js [video]

Python 2.6 was 2% of pip downloads and apparently this was the rationale for dropping its support: https://github.com/pypa/pip/pull/4343 . This led to some Python libraries to also drop 2.6, as shown by library commits referencing this…

comment by ognyankulev · 2018-04-14 · in Pip 10 has been released

…have lockfiles (Pipenv), and maybe eventually a proper SAT solver will help resolving dependencies https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/988#issuecomment-36084645... , aaand gradual typing is nice too, and maybe eventually we'll have a proper…

comment by pas · 2018-04-11 · in Python 2 will be replaced with Python 3 in the next RHEL major release

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Pip install of a directory is super slow (2014-now)

story by reinhardt · 2017-12-23 · 0 comments

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Python packaging gets yet another metadata format

story by toyg · 2017-05-24 · 0 comments

It works better than Pip and the whole setup.py mess. (Pip doesn't even have a dependency resolver: https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/988 )

comment by allover · 2017-05-05 · in Node.js Compiler – Compiling your Node.js application into a single executable

…setup.py that includes an interactive prompt, and thus breaks all ability to do automated installs! https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/2732 Here's a setup.py that cannot even be imported unless another package (numpy) is already installed:…

comment by witten · 2016-11-22 · in Pipfile for Python

…should I require_relative? In my book npm has both beat for 'is fast' and 'just works'. [0] https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/988

comment by nilliams · 2016-09-02 · in "fs" unpublished and restored

…install -r requirements.txt" with pinned (recent) versions failed. I think it triggered this issue https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/3687 . Didn't investigate though, since this was just a side project and it was 11pm. Made it work…

comment by passiveincomelg · 2016-08-24 · in Why People Should Learn Python

…systems that have more declarative metadata. [1] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0518/ [2] https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/3691

comment by tomprince · 2016-08-16 · in Python packaging is good now

…I personally can't say pip is really starting to look any better until the following is solved: https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/988 ''Pip needs a dependency resolver'' Without such a thing you really don't quite have a way to ensure…

comment by harlowja · 2016-08-14 · in Python packaging is good now

…to activate it, it may or may not give me strange errors during various parts of development. 0: https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/1668

comment by yladiz · 2016-08-14 · in Python packaging is good now

…I'm curious how the other two (and other conflict resolving strategies) compare in practice. [1]: https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/988 [2]: http://doc.crates.io/cargo/core/resolver/index.html [3]: http://0install.net/solver.html

comment by knucklesandwich · 2016-07-29 · in Comparison of Programming Language Package Managers

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Make it possible to freeze PIP requirements without installing the packages

story by networked · 2016-06-08 · 0 comments

…of dependencies' that may break from under you, npm has a solution for that: 'npm shrinkwrap'. [0] https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/988

comment by nilliams · 2016-02-29 · in Upgrading from React 0.11.2 to 0.14.7 in 347 easy steps

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OS X El Capitan breaks python package manager pip

story by nichochar · 2015-11-17 · 0 comments

…in pip, the "ask politely" approach became impossible after v1.5.6 because of this bug/decision: https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/2732 (a sudo prompt came up but it was not possible to give an indication to the user of why it was there,…

comment by crdoconnor · 2015-10-19 · in The problem with packaging in Python

…which aims to solve that problem (I've not tried it yet, but my team is considering it): [1] [0] https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/988 [1] http://nvie.com/posts/better-package-management/

comment by nilliams · 2015-09-07 · in Show HN: Combo, the Simple Python Package Manager

I see, thanks for pointing to that issue. The other issue referred https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/988 is still open, so I guess they work on sorting this out.

comment by yaph · 2014-05-27 · in Python 3 can revive Python