Re: pipenv and pip

Something as simple as reading a requirements.txt file into JSON must
either reimplement or wrongly import from pip._internal.

Anyways,
Tool authors reimplementing in particular the requirements.txt
functionality shouldn't be necessary.

On Monday, August 20, 2018, Paul Moore <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, 20 Aug 2018 at 12:25, Wes Turner <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > On Monday, August 20, 2018, Paul Moore <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >> I know "security by obscurity" doesn't work, but I'm happier if
> >> details of this library *aren't* widely known - it's not something I'd
> >> want to encourage people using, nor is it supported by pip, as it's
> >> basically a direct interface into pip's internal functions, papering
> >> over the name changes that we did in pip 10 specifically to dissuade
> >> people from doing this.
> >
> >
> > If someone was committing to identifying useful API methods, parameters,
> and return values;
> > writing a ~PEP;
> > implementing said API;
> > and maintaining backwards compatible shims for some reason;
> > would something like `pip.api` be an appropriate namespace?
> > (now that we're on version 18 with a faster release cycle)?
>
> I'm not quite sure I know what you mean here. The key point is that
> pip 18.0 might have an internal function pip._internal.xxx, and in pip
> 18.1 there's no such function, and the functionality doesn't even
> exist any more. How would a 3rd party project maintain backwards
> compatible shims in the face of that? Agreed it's not likely in
> practice - but we're not going to guarantee it.
>
> To be honest I don't see the point of discussing pip's internal API.
> It's just that - internal. I'd rather discuss useful (general)
> packaging libraries, that tools can build on - pip can vendor those
> and act as (just) another consumer, rather than getting into debates
> about support and internal APIs.
>
> Paul
>

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