Proposal: overrides for installers

Packaging
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Seems like PDM has something very close to what I have in mind: Override the resolved package versions. I am quite sure I had investigated PDM, I must have missed it…

If I understood correctly, one can add a pdm.toml file in their own copy of the project source tree (without committing this file), with content such as this:

[[tool.pdm.source]]
name = "private"
url = "https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu118"
include_packages = ["torch*"]

[tool.pdm.resolution.overrides]
torch = "2.2.0"

This looks quite powerful.

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I came across this thread when doing research for dependency specification and just wanted to add that uv supports overriding dependencies, currently with a -o/--overrides flag that has a similar input format to -c/--constraints (a limited requirements.txt syntax).

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Note the cargo feature is quite limited, roughly requiring the replacement to be semver compatible. c.f. allow overriding dependency major version · Issue #5640 · rust-lang/cargo · GitHub

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