Re:Python Pip 20.3 Released with new resolver
by mehrdadn on Monday November 30, 2020 @09:16AM
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No kidding. I pretty much don't even believe in the concept of a serious upgrade anymore, as far as pip goes anyway. As long as it still works when I run it, nobody is missing out on any serious upgrades as far as I'm concerned at this point.
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Re:Python Pip 20.3 Released with new resolver
by belval on Monday November 30, 2020 @10:49AM
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That's a pretty bad mindset, new pip versions (20+) include support for binary distributions that saves a lot of time when installing pretty much anything that needs to be compiled.
Just run `pip install --upgrade pip` every month and you will be fine.
Re:Python Pip 20.3 Released with new resolver
by hobofan on Monday November 30, 2020 @12:51PM
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Do you have a reference for that? IIRC binary wheels have been supported for ages and not just in 20+ (which was released this year).
Re:Python Pip 20.3 Released with new resolver
by dralley on Monday November 30, 2020 @08:11PM
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What the likely mean, is that newer versions of pip support newer platforms underpinning the binary packages.
Python binary packages are a bit of a kludge, they take a binary built on a base platform like CentOS 5, and use tools like patchelf to take all the libraries that they dynamically link against and re-wrap them in a new package.
Until about a year ago, CentOS 5 was the newest base platform available. So if your library needed a glibc feature or some other library feature from the past decade you were SoL.