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No kidding. I pretty much don't even believe in the concept of a serious upgrade anymore, as far as pip goes anyway. As long as it still works when I run it, no

• belval 6y ago
  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.
  • hobofan 6y ago
    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).
    • dralley 6y ago
      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.
      • asah 6y ago
        thx - this is actually v helpful to me. yay for HN!
  • mehrdadn 6y ago
    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...