Can't install azure-cli because of pinned beta versions

[eiriklid-sk]

Describe the bug

I'm trying to use
uv tool install azure-cli@latest
but installs version 2.0.67.

After some investigation it turns out that this due to lots of pre-release packages being added since then.
Could you clean up your dependencies in https://github.com/Azure/azure-cli/blob/dev/src/azure-cli/setup.py to use stable versions?

This is the problematic packages I found:

azure-batch==15.0.0b1
azure-keyvault-securitydomain==1.0.0b1
azure-mgmt-authorization==5.0.0b1
azure-mgmt-batchai==7.0.0b1
azure-mgmt-botservice~=2.0.0b3
azure-mgmt-containerinstance==10.2.0b1
azure-mgmt-containerregistry==14.1.0b1
azure-mgmt-datalake-store~=1.1.0b1
azure-mgmt-eventgrid==10.2.0b2
azure-mgmt-eventhub~=12.0.0b1
azure-mgmt-extendedlocation==1.0.0b2
azure-mgmt-hdinsight==9.1.0b2
azure-mgmt-iotcentral~=10.0.0b1
azure-mgmt-iothub==5.0.0b1
azure-mgmt-loganalytics==13.0.0b4
azure-mgmt-monitor~=7.0.0b1
azure-mgmt-policyinsights==1.1.0b4
azure-mgmt-postgresqlflexibleservers==1.1.0b2
azure-mgmt-rdbms==10.2.0b17
azure-mgmt-mysqlflexibleservers==1.0.0b3
azure-mgmt-resource-deployments==1.0.0b1
azure-mgmt-resource-deploymentscripts==1.0.0b1
azure-mgmt-resource-deploymentstacks==1.0.0b1
azure-mgmt-resource-templatespecs==1.0.0b1
azure-mgmt-servicebus~=10.0.0b1
azure-mgmt-servicefabricmanagedclusters==2.1.0b1
azure-mgmt-servicelinker==1.2.0b3
azure-mgmt-signalr==2.0.0b2
azure-mgmt-sqlvirtualmachine==1.0.0b5
azure-mgmt-sql==4.0.0b22
azure-mgmt-synapse==2.1.0b5

to anyone comming here looking for a quick solution:
uv tool install --prerelease=allow azure-cli@latest
will get you the latest version.

Related command

uv tool install azure-cli@latest

Errors

• azure-cli==2.0.67
  ...
  warning: The package urllib3==2.5.0 does not have an extra named secure

Issue script & Debug output

N/A

Expected behavior

Expect it to install latest version. It would then look like this:
+ azure-cli==2.79.0

Environment Summary

Not sure if this is relevant in this context, but here it is:

azure-cli 2.57.0 *

core 2.57.0 *
telemetry 1.1.0

Dependencies:
msal 1.26.0
azure-mgmt-resource 23.1.0b2

Python location 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Azure\CLI2\python.exe'
Extensions directory 'C:\Users\redacted.azure\cliextensions'

Python (Windows) 3.11.7 (tags/v3.11.7:fa7a6f2, Dec 4 2023, 19:24:49) [MSC v.1937 64 bit (AMD64)]

Legal docs and information: aka.ms/AzureCliLegal

Additional context

From astral-sh/uv#14415 (comment) :

• Revert "Use setuptools entry_points for az executable" #1042
• Support python3 executable when running az #1043
• az wrongly assumes Python executable #7367
• No module named azure in pyvenv #3989
• convert az bash script into console entry point #8208
• Rewrite az in python #10516

[yonzhan]

Thank you for opening this issue, we will look into it.

[bebound]

Thanks for raising this.
Unfortunately, some modules rely on the pre-release azure-xx packages, which is not under our control.

[eiriklid-sk]

I would expect that Azure is in control of azure-cli and all its Azure dependencies?

[bebound]

https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-python determines the version of azure-xx, and using which SDK is controlled by service team.

[eiriklid-sk]

Are you saying that these aren't real dependencies for the package or that the issue needs to be raised somewhere else?

This one for examples has been deprecated since 2022: https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-python/blob/main/sdk/app/azure-mgmt-app/CHANGELOG.md

[asmaier]

I think it is not honest to claim in setup.py

CLASSIFIERS = [
    'Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable',

and then depend on so many beta versions. Please fix this.

P.S. A workaround is

uv add azure-cli --prerelease=allow

But to run your scripts you need to either set --prerelease=allow also for uv run or you do

uv run --no-sync <your-script.py>