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Re:Pipenv: Promises a Lot, Delivers Little (2020) by cuteboy19 on Saturday July 16, 2022 @01:33PM (#32120128)
>That happens very rarely with our dozens of transitive dependencies

Because you don't do ml. My requirements.txt is useless in 6 months because the transitive dependencies all have incompatible versions of common libraries by now

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Re:Pipenv: Promises a Lot, Delivers Little (2020) by plonk on Saturday July 16, 2022 @04:55PM (#32121886)
All we do is ML and image processing. We use huge libraries like PyTorch, ones with insane packaging like OpenCV, and things are so stable I haven’t felt the need to introduce version pinning yet.

Maybe you’re using recent less-stable projects? I found that the main ML packages rarely break things without months of deprecation warnings.

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