[Distutils] name of the dependency problem

[Trishank Karthik Kuppusamy]

On 15 April 2015 at 11:15, David Cournapeau <cournape at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> This is indeed the case. If you want to solve dependencies in a way that
> works well, you want an index that describes all your available package
> versions.
>
> While solving dependencies is indeed NP complete, they can be fairly fast
> in practice because of various specificities : each rule is generally only
> a few variables, and the rules have a specific form allowing for more
> efficient rule representation (e.g. "at most one of variable", etc...). In
> my experience, it is not more difficult than using graph-based algorithms,
> and
>
> FWIW, at Enthought, we are working on a pure python SAT solver for
> resolving dependencies, to solve some of those issues. I am actually
> hacking on it right at PyCon, we hope to have a first working version end
> of Q2, at which point it will be OSS, and reintegrated in my older project
> depsolver (https://github.com/enthought/depsolver).
>
>
Awesome! Then pip could use that in the near future :)
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