using pip to resolve dependencies (but use Pipenv, and Pipenv.lock)

[franzhaas]

Dear all,

using jupyter-book and jupyterlab i ended up with an issue with dependency resolution.
(executablebooks/MyST-NB#355)

pip was able to resolve the dependencies. I personally would have prefered if my pipenv install would have resolved the dependencies, but this is propably down to a library that is used by pipenv...

What i realised at that point is that I may end up with different environments than my coleagues who dont use pipenv yet (Even if the pipenv install would have resolved the dependencies, the solution may not be the same that was found by a different tool.)

I hacked together this solution https://github.com/franzhaas/pipenv_by_pip which solves my problem at hand (so far).

Is this a recommendable workflow? Do you have better suggestions?

Thanks in advance,
Franz

[franzhaas]

I just improved the script by checking for attempts to use a nested environment, and locking only once...

[florisla]

It looks like #4759 is trying to achieve the same thing -- use pip's resolver instead of the one of piptools.