On: Specifying Installation Requirements for Python Projects

[marius_k]

Do you have an example of how it would be solved in other languages?

In python I would create different requirements files together with freeze versions of those. One could contain the standard "numpy" and another would be "numpy @ my-custom-built-numpy-url". I haven't tried it and don't know how it would work in practice.

[ivoflipse → marius_k]

Yarn has the following: https://classic.yarnpkg.com/en/docs/selective-version-resolu...

This doesn't allow you to use an alternative index, but it does allow you to override packages that restrict their dependencies versions too strictly