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fake-name · 09-07-2021, 01:37 AM

Is there any reason that dependency management can't just be passed off to an existing tool like pip?

It seems like you could just have plugins define a requirements.txt (or something like setup.py) and have pip solve the managing issue. It might be a good idea to require pinning a specific package version, but I don't see a reason it wouldn't work.

09-07-2021, 01:37 AM	#3
fake-name Member Posts: 13 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2008 Device: PRS-505	Is there any reason that dependency management can't just be passed off to an existing tool like pip? It seems like you could just have plugins define a requirements.txt (or something like setup.py) and have pip solve the managing issue. It might be a good idea to require pinning a specific package version, but I don't see a reason it wouldn't work.