python-multipart dependency conflicts with multipart require by httpx

[mgorny]

httpx has recently gained a dependency on multipart:

+multipart==0.2.4

However, starlette depends on python-multipart. Both packages install multipart (one as .py module, the other one as a package), so they both cannot be correctly installed simultaneously.

This is making Gentoo packaging really difficult because a full testing + install of starlette and httpx would require installing both packages simultaneously.

[Kludex]

Hmm... On Starlette is an option dependency, on httpx is just used on tests.

@tomchristie can we provide help?

Suggestions besides replacing the multipart on httpx?

[mgorny]

Well, I suppose the alternative is to switch to multipart in starlette but I don't know pros/cons. From a quick look, both packages are active in git, though python-multipart hasn't seen a release in quite a while.

What really sucks is that both use the same module name while using different pypi names, so this problem is bound to happen over and over again with different packages :-(. That said, I suppose multipart wins here since it is the first search result on pypi, while python-multipart looks rather meek (late in results, no description…)

[lovelydinosaur]

httpx has recently gained a dependency on multipart

Okay. Let's drop that. encode/httpx#2456

[mgorny]

Ok, thanks a lot ;-).