[Distutils] GSoC 2017 - Plan of Action for dependency resolver

[Paul Moore]

On 1 March 2017 at 10:28, Pradyun Gedam <pradyunsg at gmail.com> wrote:
> I haven't really understood how it gets the information about dependencies
> without downloading the packages... I'll give it another pass this weekend.

If I recall, it reads static dependency data held on the red-dove site
and maintained by downloading and running egg-info on the packages as
changes occur. I don't think it's a sustainable approach for pip at
the moment (my understanding is that it was a proof of concept for
what having static metadata on PyPI would gain us).

Paul