Is 22.0 possible?

[daveisfera]

The minimum version of pip was increased to 22.2, but is 22.0 possible? I ask because the official image for Python 3.9 is using 22.0 and that prevents upgrading.

[atugushev]

See versions and compatibility.

[daveisfera]

Yes, I saw the version increase, but I'm asking if it's a hard requirement. I only see 1 case that mentioned 22.1 and could that one case be kept or something changed to allow support of 22.0?

[atugushev]

It's not hard to support pip-22.0 version per se. However, conventionally pip-tools supports only the last two major pip versions to reduce maintenance burden and CI time. We occasionally bump the minimum version of pip from time to time using this convention. If someone needs older pip versions they should use a compatible pip-tools version.

See #926.

[daveisfera]

I'm grateful for pip-tools and definitely understand that and if it's the way it has to be, then I'm ok with that, but if the supported versions of pip could align with the life cycle of Python itself, then that would be great

[atugushev]

I'll close this based on the above. Thanks for the understanding.