Pipenv also uses pip as mentioned several times in the thread, and (reiterating here) the entire point of the conversation is about how both can work together on changes. That is the thrust of the whole discussion. We are actively using pip via its internals and pips developers (who _actively develop pip_) would like us to an alternate approach. 

The discussion is about how to find one and then contribute it back to pip. Nobody is discontinuing work on pip, nobody is splitting from pip, and I would prefer if we could refrain from trying to spread this kind of inaccurate picture. I know we have had unproductive conversations on the issue tracker, please don’t bring them to the mailing list. 

Dan Ryan // pipenv maintainer
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On Sep 20, 2018, at 2:29 PM, Bert JW Regeer <xistence@0x58.com> wrote:



On Sep 20, 2018, at 12:11, Tzu-ping Chung <uranusjr@gmail.com> wrote:


On 21 Sep 2018, at 02:01, Bert JW Regeer <xistence@0x58.com> wrote:



On Sep 19, 2018, at 23:22, Chris Jerdonek <chris.jerdonek@gmail.com> wrote:

Thus, it's looking like things could be on track to split the user and maintainer base in two, with pip bearing the legacy burden and perhaps not seeing the improvements. Are we okay with that future?

This'll be a sad day. pip is still used as an installer by other build system where using pipenv is simply not a possibility.

I am not quite sure I understand why you’d think so. pip has been bearing the legacy burden for years, and if this is the future (not saying it is), it would more like just another day in the office for pip users, since nothing is changing.

pip not seeing any improvements is something I think will be sad. I don't use pipenv, but use poetry which uses pip behind the scenes to do installation. I also use flit. For either of those cases I would think it sad that pipenv splits from pip, and then developers of alternate tooling around building packages (but not installing) don't get new improvements because "pip is legacy".

pipenv doesn't work in various scenarios, and trying to shoehorn it into those scenarios is just wrong especially since it wasn't designed to do those things.