[BangPypers] Do you pin your requirements.txt ?

[Noufal Ibrahim]

Kiran Jonnalagadda <jace at pobox.com> writes:


[...]

> I only have more experience with long term maintenance of code.
>
> Pinned requirements == complacency == future breakage, when maintenance is
> much more expensive than it is today.
>
> We deploy multiple times a day and I don't find that the gap between a
> Travis test and production deployment is so long that an upstream release
> within those few seconds broke compatibility.

You've obviously zeroed in a workflow that works for you. My general
experience is that pinning requirements reduces daily headaches but I
can see (and have felt) the long term bitrot problem you've talked
about. Maybe I should try doing things this way.

[...]


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