We got a problem here.

azure-identity is used in Azure CLI by some modules owned by service team (though azure-cli-core doesn't depend on azure-identity), but azure-identity requires

https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-python/blob/4db8247d519b48051eb9f88d1c2c44949b6a45ba/sdk/identity/azure-identity/setup.py#L79

"msal-extensions~=0.3.0",

Azure CLI can't use msal-extensions 0.4.0, as it will cause conflict with azure-identity. @xiangyan99

We got a problem here.

azure-identity is used in Azure CLI by some modules owned by service team (though azure-cli-core doesn't depend on azure-identity), but azure-identity requires

https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-python/blob/4db8247d519b48051eb9f88d1c2c44949b6a45ba/sdk/identity/azure-identity/setup.py#L79

"msal-extensions~=0.3.0",

Azure CLI can't use msal-extensions 0.4.0, as it will cause conflict with azure-identity. @xiangyan99

Good finding, @jiasli !

1. @xiangyan99, the msal-extensions~=0.3.0 declaration accepts msal-extensions>=0.3.0,<0.4.0. That was appropriate at that time, because Semantic Versioning allows potential breaking changes between every 0.x.0 versions. The upcoming msal-extensions 0.4.0 does not contain breaking change, so, azure-identity can simply go ahead and upgrade the dependency to msal-extensions>=0.3.0,<0.5.0.

2. But then, @jiasli , we will also need the next version of Azure-Identity with that new widened dependency to be released, in order to let Azure CLI's modules picking up the new Azure-Identity package. So, @xiangyan99, when will next azure-identity be released?

3. MSAL Extensions can still proceed with this 0.4.0 release. It is just that, until No.1 and No.2 above happen, the Azure CLI users would still need to manually patch their environment's msal-extensions by installing it from this github repo's dev branch.

Abandoning this PR, as we chose to go with 1.0.0 release instead.