[openstack-dev] [all] [glance] do NOT ever sort requirements.txt

Joshua Harlow harlowja at outlook.com
Wed Sep 3 18:29:43 UTC 2014


Anyone know what happened to (or is happening) to:

https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/988

'Pip needs a real dependency resolver'

Maybe it's time we as a community helped pip get that feature in?

-Josh

On Sep 3, 2014, at 5:37 AM, Sean Dague <sean at dague.net> wrote:

> I'm not sure why people keep showing up with "sort requirements" patches
> like - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/76817/6, however, they do.
> 
> All of these need to be -2ed with predjudice.
> 
> requirements.txt is not a declarative interface. The order is important
> as pip processes it in the order it is. Changing the order has impacts
> on the overall integration which can cause wedges later.
> 
> So please stop.
> 
> 	-Sean
> 
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