Discrepancy between install_requires and requirements.txt

[maresb]

Question: Should we be pinning six at 1.15.0? Now that six is on 1.16.0 this can lead to downgrades.

From setup.py:

install_requires=["tenacity>=6.2.0", "six"],

There seems to be no pinning from setuptools.

However, from requirements.txt:

six==1.15.0

(and also tenacity>=6.2.0)

I notice that six is slated for removal (#3167), so I hope the pinning is unnecessary, but I'm not sure.

Any guidance on this question would be very helpful over at conda-forge regarding conda-forge/plotly-feedstock#94

[nicolaskruchten]

I can't think of a reason to pin it, I think it's just historical. We're planning on removing six sometime anyway as we don't support Python 2.7 any more :) See also #3167