Re: Dependencies, and upcoming changes to pip

Thanks, Shaheed for pointing it out, we will definitely look into it.

On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 6:08 PM Shaheed Haque <shaheedhaque(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've long wondered why pgAdmin4 seems to hard pin its dependencies;
> specifically these two which do seem rather outdated:
>
> pgadmin4 4.26 requires pytz==2018.9, but you'll have pytz 2020.1 which is
> incompatible.
> pgadmin4 4.26 requires sqlparse==0.2.4, but you'll have sqlparse 0.3.1
> which is incompatible.
>
> So far, I've just ignored this , and as far as I know, I have not
> encountered any obvious issues. But, with the upcoming changes to pip's
> resolver, I suspect this is going to become a hard error for me as I
> believe the new resolver will simply abort the install in such cases:
>
> ERROR: After October 2020 you may experience errors when installing or
> updating packages. This is because pip will change the way that it resolves
> dependency conflicts.
>
> We recommend you use --use-feature=2020-resolver to test your packages
> with the new resolver before it becomes the default.
>
> So, I'd like to request that any unneeded constraints are either removed,
> or relaxed, or at least updated to something close to current.
>
> Thanks, Shaheed
>
> P.S. We understand about venvs, but we have a whole bunch of dependencies
> beyond pgAdmin and having to set up multiple venvs to isolate everything is
> a deployment-time overhead we prefer to avoid.
>

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