Current work and near-term plans:
- Our user experience researchers @ei8fdb and Georgia Bullen have been helping us think through specific decisions about the rollout. And they continue to interview you (please sign up if you haven’t already!) to learn more about people’s mental models, use cases, workflows, etc. They aim to put together a preliminary report this month to give pip’s developers some more systematic info, and I hope this will also be of use to some other packaging tools developers.
- Ilan Schnell is working with us to improve our existing tests/testing and to add more tests to validate the new resolver.
- We’ll be releasing pip 20.1b1 early this week, and it’ll include an alpha version of the new dependency resolver that people can test if they so feel inclined using
--unstable-feature=resolver. Here’s context and some testing instructions. I’ll be publicizing that somewhat. This is thanks to the work of @uranusjr @pradyunsg & @pf_moore. - Then, in May, we’ll be releasing a pip version that will include a beta version of the new resolver, and I will publicize that (along with a more in-depth what-to-test guide) even more.
Thanks again to Mozilla & CZI for funding enabling this work!