I’m working on the usability of pip (the official Python package manager) at the moment. This short blogpost isn’t about how to design CLIs. It is about creating rapid prototypes with this tool – part “look at this useful tool, part “thank you Pradyun” part feature request list. 🙂 Update After putting together the feature […]
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A Python community announcement about our pip work
Sumana Harihareswara the pip PM put together a video for the Python community to tell them about our UX work on pip, the package manager. Initially I was thinking “I hate seeing my face on video, I hate hearing my voice. This better not have ukelele music. I hate those kinds of videos.” I liked […]
Github.com is blocked from LycaMobile ES
Dear LycaMobile, please unblock access to github.com. The blocking seems to be at the DNS level. I’m sure this blocking is not intentional – more likely a mistake in configuration, a change in DNS somewhere, and no-one has reported it. I’ve signed up for a LycaMobile Pay-as-you-go SIM account, and registered our personal details (purchasing […]
How should pip handle dependency conflicts when updating already installed packages?
The pip UX Team is looking for your input into future pip behaviour! What is this research about? This research is to understand what behaviour users expect from pip where upgrading a package would introduce dependency conflict(s) to already installed packages. I want to give my input! Great! Nicole has put together a 1 question […]
Test pip’s alpha resolver and help us document dependency conflicts
Hello! It’s Bernard and Nicole here from the pip team. What’s this research about? The team is working on the improving the way that pip resolves package dependency conflicts and would like feedback from users who have projects with complex dependencies. By complex dependencies we mean projects that: have at least 10 package dependencies some […]
How do you deal with conflicting dependencies caused by pip installs?
pip UX studies: response data
This is an ongoing analysis of the Python pip UX Study signups. These figures will change as new people sign-up for the studies. The purpose of this is to give the pip team some understanding of the kinds of participants that are taking part in our research. How long have you been using Python?Infogram Copy: […]
Sign-up for the pip UX Studies!
Do you use Python? pip? If so, sign-up to take part in the pip UX Studies.
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Open Source conference organising software
This is a short note to myself (and anyone interested) about software applications I’ve found recently that allow you do manage conferences/ticket sales, etc. Pretalx; it comes in self-hosted and hosted-for-you options. Feature comparison also available. Hosted-for-you prices range from 850EUR to 1450, depending on the number of attendees and ticket price.Self-hosted does not have […]