On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 8:50 PM Mike Miller <[email protected]> wrote:

> I never understood the fear around version conflicts.


With binary extension modules, version conflicts lead to (at best) runtime
segfault and (at worst) subtle *data* bugs that return incorrect results.
There are also deeper concerns around security and reproducibility.


> Perhaps it has to do with
> the decline of sys-admin skills over the years?


Many millions of users of new Python users show up every year, using the
language and its powerful ecosystem for data analytics and scientific
computing, and they have no hope of having sys-admin skills.

-Peter
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