Matt Davis

I am confused on one point -- it should leave the entries in the Pipfile right when using `--all` or `--all-dev`? It seems there is a really old test assertion...

> I'd be sympathetic to anyone who had come to rely on the behavior of --all-dev Yeah me too, I restored that part of the PR -- that is the...

I just searched the current code base and don't see where we are using a VERSION env var, -- that would get the PIPENV_ prefix if we were, but I...

> I would propose to do not treat this environment variable as [the configurational one](https://pipenv.pypa.io/en/latest/advanced/#configuration-with-environment-variables). I don't see where the environment variables listed there mention a VERSION variable either ...


@pradyunsg I'll eventually have more time to elaborate, but my initial take is this would be ultimately very challenging for both parties, as we use many internal aspects of pip...

One thing that would be really helpful if the pip internals allowed generating metadata that could be used pre-build for generation of lock files for systems other than the one...

@pradyunsg That is true and we would love to be able to drop the patches, but currently they serve important purposes. We have dropped some of the patches that existed...

> This sort of shit is exactly _why_ pip isn't supposed to be used as a library in fact. :P But that is actually an example where we use sub-process...

@icbd did you know you can specify the name of your virtualenv with an environment variable override as well?