Paul Haerle

Hello & thank you for the detailed description, but could you clarify the following part: > If we rely on pex3 to maintain the lock file by following [the strategy...

No! Sorry for the confusion, I just noticed that this issue was still open while I had closed the PR https://github.com/nix-community/dream2nix/pull/611 a while ago because I lack time/priority on that....

> Is it incorrect that this is pointing to a whl, or that it fails to unzip the whl, or is the way this software is packaged not supported by...

> nix run --impure #someproject.lock Ah, that's confusing. The packages name is "someproject", but if you take a look at `nix flake show` you'll see that the attribute is named...

I think in this specific case it might suffice to rename the packages attribute from default to "myproject" which could arguably be less confusing. What would you think of that?

I think this is fixed? On current main branch, python3 gets a mkOverride-priority of 1003, which is even a bit higher than mkDefault - so can be easily overridden with...

It would probably require quite a bit of work to rename everything, and might confuse users as e.g. videos and slides therein will probably not be updated. I also think...

Hello! Yes, the reason is that this way of locking was/is still quite experimental and while I didn't run into cycles myself while testing, I anticipated that those would cause...

> Regarding cross-platform, maybe it's an overkill but... what about running pip through qemu? 😁 Too resource-intensive, and can't legally cover macOS afaik

Yes, we know about pip installs flags, but those only affect the wheel selection process, not the requirement resolution (and ofc don't handle sdists at all), see e.g. https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/11664