Please bump msrest dependency

[glaubitz]

The msrest package was recently updated to 0.7.1 while azure-devops still has a version ceiling of 0.7.0.

Thus, in order to be compatible with newer installations of the Azure SDK, the package should be ported to msrest 0.7.0 or newer.

[bluenote10]

What makes this issue even worse is that azure-devops has a dependency annotation msrest<0.7.0, and unfortunately this requirement conflicts with the latest lower bound of many other Azure related Python packages. For instance:

• azure-mgmt-compute now has a dependency msrest>=0.7.1
• azure-mgmt-containerinstance now has a dependency msrest>=0.7.1
• azure-mgmt-resource now has a dependency msrest>=0.7.1
• azure-data-tables now has a dependency msrest>=0.7.1
• azure-storage-queue now has a dependency msrest>=0.7.1

This means that it is currently impossible to run e.g. pip-compile for an environment that wants to mix azure-devops with any of these more modern packages, because pip compile will error due to the conflict in the transitive closure of the dependencies.

It would be great if this issue can be addressed with some priority because it causes a dependency hell in the Azure ecosystem in general (down-pinning / holding back lots of other Azure related packages just to satisfy azure-devops).

[tonybaloney]

I'm taking a look at this issue now. msrest 0.7.1 requires 3.6+ so this will mean the next version of this package will drop 2.7 support (which was EOL in 2020)

[harneetvirk]

@tonybaloney: I see, some recent changes in the setup.py of azure-devops. Do we have any timelines about the new release of azure-devops for 7.0.0?

[flixman]

@tonybaloney, as @harneetvirk asked: are there any timelines for zure-devops 7.0? That would be super cool!

[nechvatalp]

We released a new version with support for 7.0 and 7.1 APIs, that depends on the msrest 0.7.1 thanks @tonybaloney