On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 9:57 AM, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote:
> > On Nov 2, 2016, at 12:49 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I also mean 2.6 vs 2.7 vs 3.4 vs 3.5 vs 3.6, etc > Of course, but that has nothing to do with the package management system... > There are still platform differences too, we regularly get bugs that only > are exposed on Anaconda or on Ubuntu’s Python or on RHEL's Python or on > Python.org’s OS X installers etc etc. > Yes, that is the challenge -- and one reason folks may be tempted to say we should have ONE package manager -- to reduce the variation -- though I don't think any of us think that's possible (and probably not desirable). Basically every variation has a chance to introduce a bug of some kind, and > if you’re around long enough and you’re used enough you’ll run into them on > every system. As someone writing that code you have to decide where you > draw the line for what you support or not (for instance, you may support > Ubuntu/RHEL/Anaconda, but you may decide that any version of CPython > running on HPUX is not supported). > or you may decide to ONLY support conda -- my use case is a big pile of tangled dependencies (yes, lots o' scientific stuff) that is fairly easy to manage in conda and freekin' nightmare without it. Oh, and I'm putting it behind a web service, so I need to deploy on locked-down servers.... You CAN get all those dependencies working without conda, but it's a serious pain. Almost impossible on Windows. -CHB -- Christopher Barker, Ph.D. Oceanographer Emergency Response Division NOAA/NOS/OR&R (206) 526-6959 voice 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception chris.bar...@noaa.gov
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