Adding a suggestion to update pip when Wheel Version > 1

[jamestwebber]

What's the problem this feature will solve?

Inspired by PEP 777, the idea is to solve one hiccup of updating the wheel metadata: the user experience for people using old versions of pip. Right now there is no hint that they need to update.

Describe the solution you'd like

I've opened a PR (#13034) to tweak the error message when the wheel version is too high. The wording might not be perfect but I think this is better than nothing.

Alternative Solutions

I'm not sure what an alternative approach would be here. I don't currently have this problem, no one does. I think it'd be useful to lay the groundwork for a solution.

Additional context

Again, see the PEP 777 discussion for why this might be useful. We can't wait until a new wheel version is being uploaded to PyPI for these messages to be added, because those users won't have this problem.

Code of Conduct

• I agree to follow the PSF Code of Conduct.

[ichard26]

AFAIU, this is a duplicate of #12723 which has some pre-existing discussion on this idea?

[jamestwebber]

True, I didn't realize the previous discussion already spawned an issue. This one is a lot simpler though.

While the PEP discussion is ongoing I think it'd be helpful to keep them open, but I suppose this could be closed as a duplicate.