Combining efforts with the new pip resolver utilization

[fridex]

Hi there!

I'm not sure if I'm using the right medium to reach out to the pip-tools people with this question, but I hope so. I would like to ask if there are any plans to use the new pip resolver (pip>=20.3) in pip-tools. There was an idea to use pip's resolver in micropipenv (thoth-station/micropipenv#151 (comment)) and I'm wondering how much our efforts eventually overlap.

Thanks for your reply!

[webknjaz]

Hey @fridex!
I suggested it here #1190 (comment) as I have experience integrating it already, and also somebody mentioned resolvelib in #693 earlier. But nobody seemed to explicitly agree that this should be done.
Personally, I think it's a good idea to use it. FWIW it shouldn't be too hard to implement.

[fridex]

Thanks, @webknjaz for the reply! I'm not familiar with the pip resolver interface so I cannot judge complexity. I'll try to monitor pip-tools efforts and learn if something suitable for micropipenv would occur in that case. Thanks!

[atugushev]

#1539 adds for pip's 2020 dependency resolver support!

[atugushev]

The resolver is released as part of pip-tools v6.8.0. Use pip-compile --resolver backtracking.