App data seeder: make pip by default periodically self-upgrade #1831
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The code needs cleaned up a bit, add documentation, and some tests. But the core idea is there.
| updated_wheel = Wheel(cache_dir / filename) | ||
| # use it only if released long enough time ago - use version number to approximate release | ||
| # only use if it has been released for at least 28 days | ||
| if datetime.now() - release_date > timedelta(days=28): |
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use periodically upgraded bundle if it's older release than 28 days
| def _get_release_date(dest): | ||
| wheel = Wheel(dest) | ||
| # the most accurate is to ask PyPi - https://pypi.org/pypi/pip/json | ||
| try: |
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get release date primarily from PyPi
| except Exception: # noqa | ||
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| # otherwise can approximate from the version number https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/development/release-process/ | ||
| released = datetime(year=2000 + wheel.version_tuple[0], month=wheel.version_tuple[1] * 3 + 1, day=1) |
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or if that's not available then approximate from version number
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| kwargs = {"stdout": subprocess.PIPE, "stderr": subprocess.PIPE} | ||
| if sys.platform == "win32": | ||
| kwargs["creation_flags"] = DETACHED_PROCESS |
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The update is a detached new process to be run in the background (to not slow down creation).
| return self._check_start(now) | ||
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| delta_since_last_completed = now - self.completed | ||
| if delta_since_last_completed < timedelta(days=13): |
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trigger periodic update once every two week
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When using the legacy pip seeder, we always use the latest version. This will be latest version in bundled + search dir if running in no download mode, otherwise upstream latest.
| " seeder {}".format(ensure_text(str(self.session.seeder))), | ||
| " added seed packages: {}".format( | ||
| ", ".join( | ||
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In our report now we print exactly the version numbers of the seeded packages.
Signed-off-by: Bernat Gabor <[email protected]>
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my 2c: I don't think the upgrade should happen magically but should be an explicit command a user runs in order to pull in an upgrade. always magically downloading the latest and only once every few weeks magically downloading the latest are the same problem set imo |
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I'm gonna cop out of this discussion, since I'd like to avoid adding this to the things I'm actively thinking about. :) |
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I'm also going to opt out - my view as expressed on Discourse was that I prefer using the seeded version by default (for performance reasons, not reproducibility) but I'm OK with updating in the background if that's useful for the people who want the latest version to be used. I'll leave those people to say whether this solution suits them or not. |
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Considering we have two maintainers of this and pip that don't actually want this now I'm strongly considering letting the always embedded camp win. If pip maintainers are not worried about this, Donalds worry of this holding back the evolution of the ecosystem feels unwarranted. (I'm also in favour of always embedded, but as the one driving the discussion I wanted to remove myself from the count 🤷♂️ sorry Donald - seems the always embed camp one both in public vote and maintainers vote) |
Signed-off-by: Bernat Gabor <[email protected]>
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Superseded by #1833 |
Hmph. I'm not saying that "I don't want this now" -- but rather that now isn't a good time for me to spend working/pushing on this specific thing, since I have other things to on my plate currently. I do think the approach in this PR is better than always-embedded (which is better than status-quo). This is a compromise solution which makes everyone slightly unhappy but accomodates for every issue "well enough", vs any other choice which'll make some folks very unhappy and some folks very happy. Further, and I've stated this before elsewhere, I don't think the public vote is a good argument for picking what functionality we provide, since I'm not sure we'd provided enough context and (more importantly) we had no metrics/checks in place to determine if/how it was swayed based on what "kinds" of users "showed up to the vote". As an example, all pip maintainers/distro packagers (except Paul and Debian's maintainer .-.) voted for the middle ground option. I don't know why these folks voted they way that they did but clearly, there's some additional weight to those? I'd much rather prefer a what-are-the-arguments-and-trade-offs based choice, rather than what-won-a-popularity-contest where we have no direct way to know why it won. |
I don't agree on not providing enough context. There is a long wall of text before that poll (https://discuss.python.org/t/how-should-virtualenv-behave-respective-of-seed-packages-e-g-pip-by-default/4146) explaining the context, and multiple made follow-up posts to expand further on some context. I also don't agree on public vote not being a good place. I agree it has some shortcomings but I'm not aware of any other better methods. Donald raised in the original issue that back then everyone was on board with always download. I challenged that statement, and made a more up-to-date request for comment/survey; which shows as things stand today there seem to be more people in favour of always embedded than download or periodic update. I've reached out on the usual PEP channels to advertise the topic, so anyone who had strong feelings about the topic could join in.
This has been debated in many posts on that topic. There's no clear winner here. It's a matter of preference: a choice between blazing fast and stable or always up to date (at some decrease in speed price). |
A conservative implementation of the outcome from https://discuss.python.org/t/how-should-virtualenv-behave-respective-of-seed-packages-e-g-pip-by-default/4146 poll.
The goal of the PR is to try to pull in new pip versions, however:
The proposed change would make pip upgrade periodically:
every two weeks try to upgrade pip to a newer version
the upgrade runs not inline, but instead as a new background process (this makes the performance overhead not significant)
upgrade the seeded pip to a new version if there's a newer version that satisfies the following criteria
I consider this a reasonable middle-ground. We will mostly use bundled versions (and almost always in the CI), but for end-users, once a pip version is out there for a long time we do switch to it, as we consider that a proof of stability.
People who would like to always get the latest version should either set the environment variable
VIRTUALENV_DOWNLOAD=1or setdownloadinside thevirtualenv.inifile (or pass in the--downloadflag).People who would like to always pin to a given version should either set the environment variable
VIRTUALENV_PIP=20.1or setpipinside thevirtualenv.inifile (or pass in the--pipflag).Resolves #1821