The challenge with version conflicts is often less that you need to go update the constraints (which has little to do with sysadmin'ing, TBH) and more that you have insufficient *integration tests* and you're relying upon something else running the per-package tears.
On Thu, Feb 25, 2021, 00:10 Peter Wang <pw...@anaconda.com> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 8:50 PM Mike Miller <python-...@mgmiller.net> > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/TYZ6QT4BVQY7SVXV6E63YKNV6SCNFZ7V/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >
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