I assumed that the old pip versions would keep working, as long as the python2 packages kept being hosted, and this is just freeing new pip development from bei

I assumed that the old pip versions would keep working, as long as the python2 packages kept being hosted, and this is just freeing new pip development from being python2 compatible. Does anyone know if this is the case? If not, it’s a good argument for vendoring dependencies when publishing scientific code.