Structured, Exchangeable lock file format (requirements.txt 2.0?)

[pradyunsg (Pradyun Gedam)]

@uranusjr

maybe @pradyunsg can provide some insights on the upcoming new resolver to decide whether it’d help things to keep the acyclic part.

pip’s documentation somewhere notes something along the line of “pip can handle cycles in a dependency graph, breaking at an arbitrary point in the cycle”. The new resolver will need to handle this situation in a manner compatible with that.

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Found 2 places with that:

• pip/src/pip/_internal/resolve.py at f048eb7a76eab222a4dfcfc3fd01f1c9e992f49a · pypa/pip · GitHub
• This page has moved - pip documentation v23.3.2