[Distutils] GSoC 2017 - Working on pip

[Wes Turner]

>From the discussion on
https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/988#issuecomment-279033079:


   - https://github.com/ContinuumIO/pycosat (picosat)
      - https://github.com/ContinuumIO/pycosat/blob/master/pycosat.c (C)
      - https://github.com/ContinuumIO/pycosat/blob/master/picosat.c
      - https://github.com/ContinuumIO/pycosat/tree/master/examples
   - https://github.com/enthought/sat-solver (MiniSat)
      - https://github.com/enthought/sat-solver/tree/master/simplesat/tests
      - https://github.com/enthought/sat-solver/blob/master/requirements.txt
(PyYAML,
      enum34)


Is there a better way than SAT?

On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 12:20 PM, Pradyun Gedam <pradyunsg at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yay! Thank you so much for a prompt and positive response! I'm pretty
> excited and looking forward to this.
>
> On Thu, Feb 9, 2017, 20:23 Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
>
> I’ve never done it before, but I’m happy to provide mentoring on this.
>
> On Feb 8, 2017, at 9:15 PM, Pradyun Gedam <pradyunsg at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello Everyone!
>
> Ralf Gommers suggested that I put this proposal here on this list, for
> feedback and for seeing if anyone would be willing to mentor me. So, here
> it is.
>
> -----
>
> My name is Pradyun Gedam. I'm currently a first year student VIT
> University in India.
>
> I would like to apply for GSoC 2017 under PSF.
>
> I currently have a project in mind - the "pip needs a dependency resolver"
> issue [1]. I would like to take on this specific project but am willing to
> do some other project as well.
>
> For some background, around mid 2016, I started contributing to pip. The
> first issue I tackled was #59 [2] - a request for upgrade command and an
> upgrade-all command that has been open for over 5.5 years. Over the months
> following that, I've have had the opportunity to work with and understand
> multiple parts of pip's codebase while working on this issue and a few
> others. This search on GitHub issues [3] also provides a good summary of
> what work I've done on pip.
>
> [2]: https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/988
> [2]: https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/59
> [3]: https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues?q=author%3Apradyunsg
>
> Eagerly-waiting-for-a-response-ly,
> Pradyun Gedam
>
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