Using --install-types for older packages

[jenstroeger]

Hi,

I’m playing around with the --install-types option (or install_types = true in a configuration file) and expected it to download & install stub packages for older packages too.

For example, I’ve got jsonschema ==4.14.0 installed and I can manually install types_jsonschema ==4.14.0 and everything works fine. However, using the --install-types option fails in this case because, I suspect, its METADATA.toml declares version = "4.16.*".

Without continuously updating my package to meet Typeshed’s type stubs version, how can I have mypy install the correct stubs?

Thanks!

[hauntsaninja]

TBH, I don't really recommend using mypy's --install-types. Just use a requirements.txt file listing the types-* packages you need and install them before running mypy.