Olivier GriselNov 7, 2022

[ANN]: to avoid typo-squatters on PyPI we uploaded a magical "sklearn" package with a single dependency to the actual "scikit-learn" years ago.

However many people are confused by this magic package alias and its fixed 0.0 version number.

Next month, this alias will progressively "brown-out": "pip install sklearn" will fail at some predictable times with an informative error message to tell the user to use "pip install scikit-learn" instead.

https://github.com/scikit-learn/sklearn-pypi-package#goal

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Show threadSolal NathanNov 11, 2022

@ogrisel I don't really understand the time-based brown-out. Why not prompt a warning message for a month and then an error message for the rest of time? (never giving away the handle because people would impersonate sklearn)

Could you elaborate on this choice please? :)

Show threadOlivier Grisel

@solalnathan because warning messages raised in setup.py are hidden by pip when running "pip install sklearn".

And even for the very few users who enable the verbose mode, the warning message would be practically invisible in the overly crowded pip install verbose output.

Nobody reads the pip install verbose outputs carefully line by line, especially if sklearn is one of tens of dependencies of a give package.

Nov 11, 2022 at 4:44pmWeb
Show threadSolal NathanNov 11, 2022
@ogrisel Ok it makes a lot of sense. Thanks!