[Distutils] Bad setup.py dependencies on numpy, and 'pip upgrade' (was: Towards a simple and standard sdist format that isn't intertwined with distutils)

[Donald Stufft]

On October 10, 2015 at 8:22:16 PM, Nathaniel Smith (njs at pobox.com) wrote:

The bug for that is 
https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/59 

AFAICT from reading that thread, work on this has stalled out because 
of the following reasoning: 
1) Everyone agrees that pip should have 'upgrade $PKG' and 
'upgrade-all' commands, and 'install -U' should be deprecated/removed. 
2) But implementing 'upgrade-all' is tricky and dangerous without 
first fixing pip's dependency resolver. 
3) Therefore we can't add 'upgrade' or 'upgrade-all' until after we 
fix pip's dependency resolver. 

I feel like there's a certain logical gap between (2) and (3)... we 
could defer 'upgrade-all' until later but start supporting 'upgrade 
$PKG' right now, couldn't we? (It'd be implemented as the equivalent 
of 'pip install $PKG=$LATEST_VERSION', which is not scary looking at 
all.) 


I don’t see any reason that ``pip upgrade`` can’t be implemented prior to ``pip upgrade-all`` (or ``pip upgrade —all``). It’s not adding a new thing that can cause problems without a dependency solver, it’s just moving the existing one and switching it so it’s non recursive by default.

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