> -----Original Message-----
> From: Antonio Cavallo <[email protected]>
> Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2019 5:05 PM
> To: Alex Walters <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Distutils] unifying package formats
>
> I don't think they serve a much different scope after al:l both uncompress
> files under a filesystem. There are difference in the way .so/.dll are
> maintained/built and some ancillary metadata (and you can see commonality
> in between conda/pip as well) but that's about it.
>
Then, that puts 7-zip and the PYPA in the same scope. There is more to project
and infrastructure scope than the technical scope of what the code is doing.
No, pip's scope is strictly managing python packages, conda's scope is much
wider than that.
>
> On Sat, 26 Jan 2019 at 18:21, Alex Walters <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote:
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Antonio Cavallo <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]> >
> > Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2019 6:01 PM
> > To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
> > Subject: [Distutils] unifying package formats
> >
> > Hi,
> > is there any initiative to share a common package format between
> conda and
> > pip? They look very similar.
> >
> > Thanks
>
> They look similar, but they have very different scopes. Pip is for the
> python environment only. Conda acts more like a python focused, system-
> isolated APT. Unifying packaging for the general python ecosystem (wheels
> hosted on pypi installed with pip) with conda (full stack dependency
> management, including large quantities of foreign code) is likely to be
> impossible, and even if possible, impractical.
>
>
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