no such option: --use-feature while installing tensorflow object detection api

Question

I'm trying to install Tensorflow Object Detection API, following the steps at this link, which is the official installation's documentation for Tensorflow 2.

git clone https://github.com/tensorflow/models.git
> everything is ok
cd models/research/
> everything is ok
protoc object_detection/protos/*.proto --python_out=.
> everything is ok
cp object_detection/packages/tf2/setup.py .
> everything is ok
python -m pip install --use-feature=2020-resolver .

> Usage:   
>   /opt/anaconda3/envs/ml/bin/python -m pip install [options] <requirement specifier> [package-> index-options] ...
>   /opt/anaconda3/envs/ml/bin/python -m pip install [options] -r <requirements file> [package-index-options] ...
>   /opt/anaconda3/envs/ml/bin/python -m pip install [options] [-e] <vcs project url> ...
>   /opt/anaconda3/envs/ml/bin/python -m pip install [options] [-e] <local project path> ...
>   /opt/anaconda3/envs/ml/bin/python -m pip install [options] <archive url/path> ...

> no such option: --use-feature

Can someone help me understand why the installation stops as it does? I'm using macOS Mojave, Python 3.6 (on a conda virtual env), and Tensorflow 2.3.0.

Answer 1

I had the same problem, I upgraded pip version from 20.0.2 to 20.2.2, then it worked.

An issue was opened on github on this matter, check here.

Use python -m pip install --upgrade pip to upgrade pip.