.@kalefranz succinctly lays out some of the key points in the ongoing conda/wheel discussions that seem to crop up on HN every few months... news.ycombinator.com/item?id=176162…
TLDR: "Vendor the world of binary dependencies" doesn't help anyone. It's pure tech debt.
TLDR: "Vendor the world of binary dependencies" doesn't help anyone. It's pure tech debt.
Furthermore: As data science & analytics becomes an increasingly larger portion of Python users, Python itself will be thrown into more multi-language use cases that involve R, JS, Java, Scala, C++... (1/2)
Each of those languages have (or need) a pkg manager and no language community wants to own the whole problem. Using Linux system pkg manager+Docker doesn't help if you're developing on Windows/Mac & just kicks can down the road.
Conda is the only cross-plat, multilang solution.
Conda is the only cross-plat, multilang solution.
Everybody thinks they have a "package manager" problem. In reality, they have a "build environment specification" problem.
Don't blame Guido, don't blame setuptools, don't blame conda or Anaconda. Blame Kernighan and Ritchie, if you think it'll do any good.
Don't blame Guido, don't blame setuptools, don't blame conda or Anaconda. Blame Kernighan and Ritchie, if you think it'll do any good.
