Python: Please stop screwing over Linux distros

Re:Python: Please stop screwing over Linux distros by BiteCode_dev on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @06:28AM (#29239336)

The day packaging for distros will be easy, we will use it. Right now, making a deb is hard. Isolating 2 projects with different deb verions is hard. Distributing debs is hard. Upgrading your OS but not your python debs is hards.

Then rinse and repeat for red hat, arch, nix, mac and windows ?

Yeah right.

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Re:Python: Please stop screwing over Linux distros by eigengrau on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @06:56AM (#29239524)

Since Nix packages are distribution-independent, once you have it packaged with Nix, you could theoretically skip packaging for Ubuntu etc., but of course that may raise the bar of entry for your users.

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Re:Python: Please stop screwing over Linux distros by BiteCode_dev on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @07:23AM (#29239706)

I doesn't work on windows, so you lose half of your users. And WSL is not the answer to that.

Also, unless you repackage thousands of compiled c extensions and you play well with anaconda and can plug into the entire python ecosystem of platforms such as heroku, python anywhere, databrick and so on, you then lose 90%

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