Python Pip 20.3 Released with new resolver

Re:Python Pip 20.3 Released with new resolver by belval on Monday November 30, 2020 @10:49AM (#25254975)

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.

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Re:Python Pip 20.3 Released with new resolver by hobofan on Monday November 30, 2020 @12:51PM (#25256615)

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).

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Re:Python Pip 20.3 Released with new resolver by dralley on Monday November 30, 2020 @08:11PM (#25261108)

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.

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Re:Python Pip 20.3 Released with new resolver by asah on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @09:09AM (#25265234)

thx - this is actually v helpful to me. yay for HN!

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Re:Python Pip 20.3 Released with new resolver by mehrdadn on Monday November 30, 2020 @03:45PM (#25258744)

I'm not sure what you're talking about (pip's always done binaries for me), but I have 20.1 in any case, so...

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