pip-resolved 0.3.0

Install wheels with pre-resolved dependencies

pip-resolved

Why?

With tools such as Poetry, PDM (thanks to pdm-buildlocked) and pip-tools and we have the tools to build wheels with pinned dependencies, resolved at development time. Unfortunately, pip doesn't offer an easy way to install that without performing a full dependency-tree resolution at install time, which slows down the process.

pip-resolved was created as a thin wrapper around pip's existing functionality to allow users to install wheels with pre-resolved dependencies, without the need to package an extra requirements.txt or contraints file.

This is specially useful for applications (not libraries) that are being distributed as wheels with a fixed set of pinned dependencies to ensure reproducibility.

Installation

With pip

$ pip install pip-resolved

With pipx

$ pipx install pip-resolved

Usage

As simple as :point_down:

$ pip-resolved install <WHEEL>

How it works

pip-resolved extracts all pinned dependencies defined as Requires-Dist on your artifact metadata, generates a temporary requirements.txt file and executes the following command

$ pip install --no-deps -r requirements.txt <WHEEL>

The --no-deps command is key to make sure pip doesn't attempt to resolve the whole dependency tree.