On 7 April 2017 at 00:32, Thomas Güttler <guettliml@thomas-guettler.de> wrote:
Dear Nick and other distutils listeners,
Nick wrote this about seven months ago:
http://www.curiousefficiency.org/posts/2016/09/python-packaging-ecosystem.ht...
I love Python and I use it daily.
On the other hand there are other interesting programming languages out there.
Why not do "thinking in sets" here and see python just as one item in the list of a languages?
Let's dream: All languages should be supported in the ever best packaging solution of the future.
What do you think?
Package management that is both language and platform independent is precisely the role conda fills, but as I explain in the post, that doesn't eliminate the need for a language specific plugin manager for Python runtimes (which is the role pip fills), and nor does it eliminate the need for platform specific component managers (which is the role filled by tools like apt-get, yum/dnf, OneGet, etc). The language independent packaging problem is *way* out of scope for distutils-sig as an entity though - while it's a genuine use case, there are other more appropriate communities for discussing it (such as those related to conda development). Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia