Regarding the reinstallation of the dependencies

[rohitalate]

Hello Team,

Currently I am tiring to understand the Uptane framework. I am able to run the DEMO successfully with the help of your README file.
thanks for the keeping it more easy to understand document.
But I am not able to understand why we need to reinstall the dependencies even if I just update print statement in the code.
pip install --force-reinstall -r dev-requirements.txt

So I am new at this things, Kindly help me here to understand this thing.

Thanks In Advance

[lukpueh]

Based on the docs, I would say that without --force-reinstall any updates in @awwad's uptane-tailored tuf fork wouldn't get pulled in, if tuf was already installed.

[rohitalate]

Hello lukpueh,

Thanks for your quick response. I got the idea
But if possible can you please elaborate more. why it is required each time.
ex : if I update just print statement in the code . then again I need to reinstall the dev-requirements. why its mandatory ?

[lukpueh]

But if possible can you please elaborate more. why it is required each time.
ex : if I update just print statement in the code . then again I need to reinstall the dev-requirements. why its mandatory ?

No no, that's not necessary. :) You only need to use --force-reinstall if you want to update dependencies in dev-requirements.txt, more specifically the awwad/tuf dependency.

Note that this is only a crutch during development, as long as awwad/tuf is being installed from GitHub.