On Feb 22, 2017, at 9:35 AM, Steve Waterbury <waterbug@pangalactic.us> wrote:
On 02/22/2017 12:23 PM, Phil Mayers wrote:
On 22/02/17 15:00, Steve Waterbury wrote:
Have you considered the 'conda' package manager?
I've never come across it. It looks too big for me to give a quick opinion on, but I'll bear it in mind. Thanks for the pointer.
"Anaconda" is huge; conda is not. You can get conda by installing "Miniconda":
https://conda.io/miniconda.html
The 64-bit bash Miniconda installer for Linux, for example, is about 28 MB, and includes just Python (either 2 or 3) with conda and its dependencies, and includes pip in case you want to use a package that is not yet available in the conda package channels -- 'pip install' works in a conda environment.
(The only reason to install Anaconda, which includes over 100 scientific Python packages, is if you are developing an app that requires a lot of Numpy or SciPy libraries.)
It is "huge" in the sense that it is a parallel universe to your normal Linux distribution though; you need to install duplicate versions of various C libraries in multiple locations, whereas pip & virtualenv allow you the flexibility of "package everything as a static generic manylinux1 wheel for portability" or "depend on dynamically linked libraries in your operating system" depending on your deployment preferences. -glyph