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Re:PSF Hires PyPI Safety and Security Engineer by bombolo on Friday August 04, 2023 @03:17PM (#37004545)
If your software requires 2 different versions of the same library, there is something deeply wrong with it.
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Re:PSF Hires PyPI Safety and Security Engineer by fooker on Friday August 04, 2023 @03:24PM (#37004651)
It's fairly common in the compilers/tools world to have automated workflows to test against different tools and libraries.
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Re:PSF Hires PyPI Safety and Security Engineer by bombolo on Saturday August 05, 2023 @01:19AM (#37009237)
And they are all needed at the same time?
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Re:PSF Hires PyPI Safety and Security Engineer by fooker on Monday August 07, 2023 @06:13AM (#37032499)
Yes, you can't keep installing and uninstalling stuff to run tests.
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Re:PSF Hires PyPI Safety and Security Engineer by KRAKRISMOTT on Friday August 04, 2023 @05:22PM (#37006073)
Most of the time diamond dependencies are upstream, not because the software itself requires two versions.
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Re:PSF Hires PyPI Safety and Security Engineer by bombolo on Saturday August 05, 2023 @05:16AM (#37010343)
Yes, get better upstream.
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