Pip 26.2: –only-deps solves 16 years of app deployment hacks

This has been one of my biggest annoyances working with Python and pip when dealing with projects where that are not meant to be installed as a package, how do you handle dependencies?Think projects like application backends, python scripts, REST APIs etc If you’ve ever struggled with this, you’re going to love this: a PR by Sebastian Höffner opened #13895 will add a new global flag to pip such that you can directly install any dependencies in your pyproject.toml without installing the package itself.pip install --only-deps .This is going, for me at least, be a huge boost in the way that I manage and distribute my projects on servers. Vastly simplifying poor manual workarounds that have built up over years.Since it’s been more than a decade in the making, let’s cover the history of poor Python souls stuck trying to figure out how to install dependencies for their scripts or apps. Requirements.txt? python -m pip freeze [options] Pip freeze is the classic sure fire first step towards…