[Distutils] Installed Extras Metadata

[Pradyun Gedam]

On Fri, 26 Jan 2018 at 23:10 Pradyun Gedam <pradyunsg at gmail.com> wrote:

> Resending coz I clicked the wrong button.
>
> On Fri, 26 Jan 2018 at 22:16 Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 26 January 2018 at 16:07, Pradyun Gedam <pradyunsg at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> Is there any other place where current functionality needs this
>> >> information, *apart* from pip check? Are there any proposed additional
>> >> features that might need it?
>> >
>> > Yes. I currently have a branch where during pip install, after the
>> packages
>> > to be installed are selected, it does a pip check on what would be the
>> > installed packages if the installation is successful. This would mean
>> that
>> > if we do select an incompatible version for installation, pip install
>> would
>> > be able to print a warning.
>>
>> I'd rather see us get a proper solver that would mean this should
>> never happen :-)
>
>
>>
> Yep, I am working on that. This is more of a short-term thing that I'm
> thinking of, just in case the proper solver isn't ready in time for pip 10.
> :)
>

And the resolver will need this extras-installed metadata as well.


> Aside, I've just posted an update over at #988 --
> https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/988#issuecomment-360846457 -- about
> the state of the resolver work and the aforementioned branch.
>
>
>> Paul
>>
>
> --
>
> Pradyun
>
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