[Distutils] Which commercial vendor?

[Nick Coghlan]

On 6 April 2017 at 01:52, Chris Barker - NOAA Federal
<chris.barker at noaa.gov> wrote:
>> On Mar 30, 2017, at 1:53 AM, Thomas Güttler <guettliml at thomas-guettler.de> wrote:
>>
>>
>> My frustration has reached a limit. Yes, I am willing to pay money.
>>
>> Which vendor do you suggest to give me a reliable package management?
>
> You may want conda -- it's an open source project, and you can get
> commercial support through Continuum Analytics.
>
> Though conda, and Continuum was born in the data science / scientific
> computing world, there is nothing about conda specific to data
> science. It's just that computational computing poses extra challenges
> for packaging -- but the easy stuff is still easy.

PayPal Engineering put together a decent write-up of their path
towards adopting that model last year:
https://www.paypal-engineering.com/2016/09/07/python-packaging-at-paypal/

It's definitely a reasonable way to go for organisational
infrastructure, but even conda doesn't cover all the potential use
cases that are out there (something I discuss a bit in
http://www.curiousefficiency.org/posts/2016/09/python-packaging-ecosystem.html
)

Cheers,
Nick.

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