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sorta from my understanding, when you build the package, your computer extracts the relevant required packages, and sends up that data to pypi, which then in t
by AndrewCHM 9y ago
sorta
from my understanding, when you build the package, your computer extracts the relevant required packages, and sends up that data to pypi, which then in turn sends that data back to users when they install
At least thats how I think it works
- ak217 9y agoI think you may be misunderstanding the problem being discussed. The code that uses pip will crash if pip is not already installed. There is no way to parse and satisfy the dependency on pip, because the author chose to import pip as a library.
- AndrewCHM 9y agopip being a dependency is defined at upload time, it is parsed by the creator of the package, not the consumer, afaik if you used any other package manager, it would need to resolve dependencies from the additional info in the package index, resulting in pip being downloaded and installed before the desired package is installed