Donald Stufft
Donald Stufft
FWIW, I've long thought it would be a great idea if pip stopped introspecting the current environment, and instead supported a CLI flag to target a specific environment (which then...
The other expense is that if we ever want to make a public API we're either limited to having a single namespace (whatever is in `pip.py`) or we need to...
I can't help but think that @warsaw and @ncoghlan probably have some opinions on this too.
Maybe @bkabrda too! and @tdsmith
> Don't underestimate the power of that first point. The intertia is _high_: lots of tools will assume `pip`, and _lots_ of documentation will be wrong. Having a long deprecation...
> -1 on removing pip I would have to change all of my deployment scripts. > +1 on removing pipX and pipX.Y I don't think it makes sense to deprecate...
> One possible date to start the discussion: when the last RHEL LTS release with Python 2.6 stops being supported (that's very far away still, but worth discussing). That's November...
To be honest, I'm not sure how `pip install -p python2.7` is any better than `python2.7 -m pip install`. We have to inspect the Python we're installing into to get...
That much is true, the flip side of that is it makes it (somewhat) harder to support versions of pip older than what pip itself supports, since the installs are...
Ah, that's right, I forgot. Sorry!