On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 7:23 PM, Michael Orlitzky <mich...@orlitzky.com> wrote: > Conda more or less passes all four, and there are only two other systems > (Nix and Gentoo prefix) that do. Its main issue is that all of the build > scripts are incredibly naive. For example, the source-based install > routing for PostgreSQL is, > > https://github.com/conda/conda-recipes/blob/master/postgresql-9.3/build.sh
I would note that the build scripts on the conda-recipes repository are "community supplied" and, it is pointed out, "not necessarily the same scripts used to build the packages in Anaconda". That is, it's possible--likely even--that for some packages Continuum has their own build recipes. That said, I also know that they often start with, or just use outright recipes from conda-recipes for adding new packages. > It also has few packages compared to Nix or Gentoo. Building packages > from source is complicated, and there are a ton of corner cases and > weird features that you need to support. It also quickly becomes > necessary to have some way of sharing code. I don't the the number of packages is a fair comparison. It's not an operating system--it started out for bundling scientific Python software and nothing more. But since much of that software had non-Python dependencies anyways... > So the tl;dr is, Conda looks promising because they haven't made any of > the stupid mistakes (a) - (d) that immediately doom a package manager. > But they're still 15 years behind. Why start over? Start over with what? It's an apples to oranges comparison. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
