PEP 735 what is it’s goal? Does it solve our dependency hell issue?

A deep dive and out comes this limitation

The mutual compatibility of Dependency Groups is not guaranteed.

https://peps.python.org/pep-0735/#lockfile-generation

Huh?! Why not?

mutual compatibility or go pound sand!

pip install -r requirements/dev.lock
pip install -r requirements/kit.lock -r requirements/manage.lock

The above code, purposefully, does not afford pip a fighting chance. If there are incompatibilities, it’ll come out when trying randomized combinations.

Without a means to test for and guarantee mutual compatibility, end users will always find themselves in dependency hell.

Any combination of requirement files (or dependency groups), intended for the same venv, MUST always work!

What if this is scaled further, instead of one package, a chain of packages?!

  • FooBarrington@lemmy.world
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    19 days ago

    I’m not sure what you’re talking about. My point was that dependency definitions in pyproject.toml aren’t schemaless.

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      18 days ago

      strict schema and a spec are not the same. package pyproject-validate can check if a pyproject.toml follows the spec, but not be using a strict schema.

      A schema is similar to using Rust. Every element is strictly typed. Is that an int or a str is not enforced by a spec

      If there was a strict schema, package pyproject-validate would be unnecessary

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          13 days ago

          Ignoring concurrency.

          For a write to be transactional, validate-pyproject would need to be called:

          Once prior to the read and again prior to the write.

          Is that occurring always?

          Haven’t checked if validate-pyproject has an API, so can be called on a str rather than only a file.