{"categories":[{"label":"Build Tools","url":"https://skillfed.io/packages/category/software-development-build-tools/4"}],"enrichment":{"capability":"Provides a design specification and parser for Pipfile and Pipfile.lock, a TOML-based format intended to replace requirements.txt for declaring Python dependencies with deterministic lock files.","skillfed_tags":["dependency-management","specification","dormant"],"use_cases":["Understanding the Pipfile specification design and format before pip integration was finalized","Parsing Pipfile and Pipfile.lock documents in projects that adopted the format early","Reference implementation for tools building Pipfile-compatible dependency management","Historical reference for the evolution of Python dependency management standards"],"what_it_does":"Pipfile is a design specification and early parser for a TOML-based dependency format meant to improve upon pip's requirements.txt. It introduces Pipfile (for loose version constraints and dependency groups) and Pipfile.lock (for fully pinned, deterministic environments with hashes). The package contains the specification, design documentation, and an incomplete parser implementation intended for use by pip and other tools.\n\nThe core concept addresses fragmentation of requirements files (dev-requirements.txt, test-requirements.txt, etc.) by consolidating dependencies into two groups: default and development. Pipfile.lock enables reproducible deployments by recording exact versions and hashes of all recursive dependencies. However, the project was under active design at release and remains dormant; pip's eventual integration of Pipfile support was planned but the package itself has not been maintained since 2017.","worth_installing":"No. This package is a dormant specification and incomplete parser from 2017. Modern Python projects should use alternative dependency management tools that have superseded the Pipfile concept. Install only if you are maintaining legacy code that explicitly depends on this package or studying the history of Python dependency management."},"id":"pipfile","links":{"html":"https://skillfed.io/packages/pipfile","md":"https://skillfed.io/packages/pipfile.md","pypi":"https://pypi.org/project/pipfile/"},"maintenance":{"status":"dormant"},"meta":{"latest_release":"2017-03-11","license_spdx":null,"license_treatment":"permissive","name":"pipfile","python_support":"unspecified","summary":null},"popularity":{"monthly_downloads":195981,"position":9801,"tier":"top_15000"},"security":{"n_vulnerabilities":0},"version":"0.0.2"}