pypa / pypa/packaging.python.org
Recommend dependency version management tooling based on use case
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Description
Similar to the problem in https://github.com/pypa/python-packaging-user-guide/issues/118 with regards to virtual environment management, our current tooling recommendations don't provide a pointer to higher level dependency version management tools like pipenv or pip-tools, they only refer to pip itself.
While we don't want to overwhelm people with choice, I think we're currently doing folks a disservice by letting them think pip is all there is, rather than guiding them towards more opinionated higher level tooling:
pipenv: web application development (and potentially other forms of application development)pip-tools: general application development (useful whenpipenvdoesn't align with your needs)conda: language-independent cross-platform package (useful when you have extensive external dependencies)
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Research direction
Start by reading the current tooling recommendations and the related python-packaging-user-guide issue 118. Determine where pip is currently presented and update that documentation to guide readers toward pipenv, pip-tools, or conda based on their use case. Done means the recommendations are clear without overwhelming readers with unnecessary choices.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- documentation
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 42/100