Machine parsable output (JSON?)

[shughes-uk]

One of our current issues with pip is that if you pip install <some packages> and one fails, its incredibly difficult to automatically determine what failed without getting into brittle regex parsing of the output.

I'd love for rip to feature something like a --json flag that would output issues in a way that can be trivially parsed. The mamba --json flag works well for us with conda packages.

Our use case is building python environments on a users behalf.

[baszalmstra]

Hey @shughes-uk . Resolvo generates a complete problem graph. I think we would be able to serialize that to json. Is that something that would help? It looks something like this:

[notatallshaw]

I don't know how much OP would find it useful, but I would certainly find it useful, especially if it outputed even if resolution failed for any reason.

[shughes-uk]

Resolution failure output ala mamba would be helpful. I'd also want output from any source packages that fail to build