[MANAGER] PipX

[NoPlagiarism]

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Describe the improvement

pipx is a specialized package installer. It can only be used to install packages with cli entrypoints.

Links:

• PyPi
• GitHub

Describe how this improvement could help users.

• Environment isolation for every package using venv
• Possibility to use different Python version (only Python 3.6+)
• It can only be used for packages with cli entries. No global libraries for coding being touched

[NoPlagiarism]

Also.. It's kinda conflicted situation. Both pip and pipX are using PyPi as main app source... So maybe there should be a way to switch main PyPi package installer?...

[szw0407]

In fact, PIPX is more suitable for installing a Python program that is directly callable using command line.

The global pip is not recommended to use, as in most cases, a python program needs a virtual environment. Globally installing or updating a program without caring about its dependencies is quite likely to cause conflicts. I am afraid that directly managing PIP packages is not a good idea.

[marticliment]

Globally installing or updating a program without caring about its dependencies is quite likely to cause conflicts. I am afraid that directly managing PIP packages is not a good idea

WingetUI does not manage venv's pip installation, but rather it manages globally-installed libraries only, used mainly for testing or for scripting and/or automating. (I find it useful to see when a library gets updated, and then I can manually update it on my ENVs later)

I understand your concern, and PipX will become part of WingetUI to give more choice to users.