[issue8927] Handle version incompatibilities in dependencies
Éric Araujo
report at bugs.python.org
Tue Jun 7 19:08:58 CEST 2011
Éric Araujo <merwok at netwok.org> added the comment:
Tarek’s reply on IRC:
> I think we should make it dumb: in case of a conflict, it's always
> better/simpler to let the user deal with it. A simple "could not
> install because you have package X version Y installed'. Trying to do
> something smarter is very very hard and will probably fail.
About adding smarts to deal with simple cases like the one you mentioned in your email:
> If we provide automation for simple cases, people will want more.
So I think we’re leaning towards rejecting this. pysetup is a simple installer for simple installs; pip and other installers will use the information returned by packaging.depgraph/install to be smart about conflicts.
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