Paul Moore

> I do not mean Pip's behavior in it's entirity needs to be documented and exhuastively tested. But for example, the fact that Pip only considers a pre-release if not...

Let’s reopen this for now. @eli-schwartz has a valid point here, and while I think pip has made an acceptable choice here (not generating wrappers preserves the setuptools behaviour) it’s...

Nice! Looks like you may have fixed it @pradyunsg 🙂 I hadn't thought to go the whole way and manage getting the extras from the metadata directly (effectively copying the...

> There is work to do to ignore invalid versions in indexes (e.g. pip install pytz fails because there are old invalid versions on PyPI), and ignore distributions with invalid...

Cool. At some point, I might go through the discussion and raise specific issues for individual items (ignore invalid versions in indexes, ignore distributions with invalid versions in dependencies, handle...

Is anyone going to be able to pick this up for 24.0? The release will be in January, so I think that realistically we should be looking to get this...

That seems reasonable. 23.3.2 having just been released, pushing 24.0 out barely a month later feels like a waste of effort. But to be clear, as far as *this* issue...

Gentle ping on this. We have a few more months (as we seem to be skipping a January release) but IMO it would be prudent to try to get it...

This discussion has got way off topic, I believe. There seem to be three separate points being discussed here: 1. @cruiseliu's original point about two issues (scripts, and sources that...

> Anyway, I still think it would be nice if pip had a flag to "never downgrade installed packages". Thus exiting with a warning if there's a downgrade. That sounds...