Thorsten Kaufmann

The current rez-pip also marks packages from pip. See https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/rez/blob/c039654664c573ae7a32f3d55943fa20302dc147/src/rez/pip.py#L437 You also get an attribute to tell if a package is pure python. Just for the sake of completeness. In...

Just to put this out there without having really thought it through. I was wondering in the past if the actual copying should be pluggable like VCSs. That would also...

`rez-bind` in general is to be deprecated in the future. `rez-bind --quickstart` is particularly broken on Windows sadly. You can use `rez-bind` to bind `arch` , `os` and `platform`, but...

I was not aware of pip download to be honest. It seems like a very easy way to support every auth config pip does with a single call, no? That...

From a quick search in the codebase it seems this is the only call that relies on wmi: https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/rez/blob/96cd33cfefc254eeb050408011245cd573aece87/src/rez/utils/platform_.py#L517 That said, replacing this on windows might not be as trivial...

Good call @jfpanisset . With PowerShell (as opposed to pwsh/PowerShell core) being shipped and still available by default that seems like a good fit, at least as a quick fix.