• PackagingWG
• 2020-11-10-pip-teamwide-meeting

Nov 10th, 2020

Participants:

• Ernest W. Durbin III
• Georgia Bullen
• Sumana Harihareswara
• Pradyun Gedam
• Bernard Tyers

Agenda:

• Issues that need followup

  • #9011 https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/9011

    • Fix is in https://github.com/sarugaku/resolvelib/pull/60

      • looks like TP needs help developing a good test for this - will be Pradyun (as far as us counting on who does it)

  • https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/7744 - Warn users about dependency conflicts when updating other packages

    • Pradyun's working on a patch -- a few different parts, one is done

      • Nicole followup on improving the message - https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/7744#issuecomment-718396220

        • TODO: followup conversation

  • https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/8785 New resolver: Failure despite correct version numbers, when extras and already-installed package are encountered together

    • Pradyun to look at this before tomorrow's meeting

  • https://github.com/pypa/pip/pull/9040 - Bernard, backtracking error message

    • run nox -s lint locally to print the error message locally and then fix things up

    • TODO: help Bernard grab Sumana's commit -- DONE

      • https://github.com/pypa/pip/commit/e6acca646abcaaac7515da9b964d5b5291264142

• Nicole did some analysis on the survey about what pip should do when upgrading another package (take already-installed packages into account?) and filed a few issues -- #9094 & #9095

  • For Pradyun to look into
• pip 20.3 release next week?
  • TODO: Sumana to give Georgia some language to circulate to civic tech groups -- DONE
  • Pradyun has feeling but not certainty that next week is a reasonable target