On 1 December 2013 04:15, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > conda has its own binary distribution format, using hash based > dependencies. It's this mechanism which allows it to provide reliable > cross platform binary dependency management, but it's also the same > mechanism that prevents low impact security updates and > interoperability with platform provided packages.
Nick can you provide a link to somewhere that explains the hash based dependency thing please? I've read the following... http://docs.continuum.io/conda/ https://speakerdeck.com/teoliphant/packaging-and-deployment-with-conda http://docs.continuum.io/anaconda/index.html http://continuum.io/blog/new-advances-in-conda http://continuum.io/blog/conda http://docs.continuum.io/conda/build.html ...but I see no reference to hash-based dependencies. In fact the only place I have seen a reference to hash-based dependencies is your comment at the bottom of this github issue: https://github.com/ContinuumIO/conda/issues/292 AFAICT conda/binstar are alternatives for pip/PyPI that happen to host binaries for some packages that don't have binaries on PyPI. (conda also provides a different - incompatible - take on virtualenvs but that's not relevant to this proposal). Oscar _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
