[Distutils] Handling the binary dependency management problem
Marcus Smith
qwcode at gmail.com
Sun Dec 1 20:21:57 CET 2013
> For arbitrary binary dependencies, however, I contend that reconciling
> the two different use cases is simply infeasible, as pip and venv have
> to abide by the following two restrictions:
>
To be clear, what's a good example of a common non-science PyPI package
that has an "arbitrary binary dependency"? psycopg2?
> For many end users just running things locally (especially beginners
> and non-developers), using conda will be the quickest and easiest way
> to get up and running.
Conda/Anaconda is an alien world right now to most non-science people
(including me)
Working in an alien world, is never the "quickest" or "easiest" way at
first, but I'm curious to try.
Some PyPA people actually need to try using it for real, and get
comfortable with it.
>> sometimes mean needing to build components with external dependencies
from source
you mean build once (or maybe after system updates for wheels with external
binary deps), and cache as a local wheel, right?
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