Well, it impacts those people who needs their work, for example for validation of scientific experiments.
It doesn't impact the ecosystem very much for sure, however I wouldn't say that the impact is zero.
It doesn't impact the ecosystem very much for sure, however I wouldn't say that the impact is zero.
The impact of those people in the ecosystem is zero, though. They don't inconvenience anyone by producing badly-written libraries, they literally do their job, produce what they want to produce and everyone is happy. I'm not sure why they get lumped in with "this problem".
I don't know why I hear this a lot, it certainly doesn't echo my experience. I've rarely had dependency problems, even the regular requirements.txt (without pinning to specific versions) tends to work well enough on reasonably current code. Pipenv pretty much solves the problem by introducing a lockfile.