April 20, 2022
10:25 a.m.
On Wed, 20 Apr 2022 at 10:25, Matthias Bussonnier <bussonniermatthias@gmail.com> wrote:
Package installation by non-programmer (who don't use the CLI) is becoming more and more common/difficult. Could we have a pip API to allow simpler creation of packaging GUI ?
I'd agree with this but reframe it as "how do we encourage/support the development and adoption of a library (or libraries) that provides a programmatic API for the installation tasks that pip currently does?" If we decouple this work from the pip project, we're more likely to find a way to develop and maintain this sustainably. But yes, this would be a good topic to consider (and we should defer worrying about details for now). Paul