Alternatives to pip

[njoeres]

Check if there are better alternatives to pypi.

[njoeres]

I guess only reasonable alternative would be conda?!

Why was pypi not a good option though again? @hach-ol-dlr

[hach-ol-dlr]

The problem is not PyPI, the problem is pip, because it doesn't have the possibility to assign a priority to different installation sources. There is no way to enforce that a certain package is installed from the source that is specified via --extra-index-url. If - in our case - there was a package called "pyBladed" on PyPI, pip would rather install this package then our package on github.

Possible solutions:

• we use no --extra-index-url and install all dependencies from PyPI
• we use a different tool for the installation - poetry has the possiblilty to specify the preferred source

Additional infos can be found in this blog post for example.

[njoeres]

Ah okay, I see. I didn't know poetry, yet, but seems to be a great package manager. As poetry is also installing from PyPI, we could publish CampbellViewer there or is there something against it?

[hach-ol-dlr]

• Yes, PyPI is the right place.
• I have no personal experiences with poetry yet. We should probably test it in an example project first. Or in a separate brach, if technically possible.