Python's New Package Landscape

Re:Python's New Package Landscape by sirn on Thursday October 18, 2018 @10:33AM (#18248604)

I have been revisiting buildout recently and I wish there's something that merge ease of use of pipenv with buildout concept. Perhaps something similar to Nix throw in the mix, but more specific to a Python project. I heard that I can do this with Conda, but I never tried.

Being able to define and install external dependencies (e.g. ImageMagick, libsodium, etc.) from a configuration file local to a project is something I missed the most, especially when I'm working on several projects at once.

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Re:Python's New Package Landscape by andersriutta on Thursday October 18, 2018 @05:59PM (#18252525)

> Perhaps something similar to Nix throw in the mix, but more specific to a Python project.

Any examples of how Nix itself doesn't do what you need? One example I can think of: Nix doesn't support Windows.

https://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#python

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Re:Python's New Package Landscape by sirn on Friday October 19, 2018 @06:25AM (#18255592)

Nix does everything I want, but I find it hard to convince friends and coworkers to try out Nix. I think this is partly due to Nix itself not belonging to the Python's ecosystem, so the barrier is higher than say, "Yeah, Pipenv is just Virtualenv+Pip"

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