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Re:Show HN: Wetlands – a lightweight Python library for mana... by krapht on Wednesday May 28, 2025 @11:32AM (#44117106)
Conda is still the recommended way to work with Intel's Python distribution, so there's a reason for it to live on my work computer.

The fastest graph library I know, graph-tool, needs to be installed with Conda too.

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Re:Show HN: Wetlands – a lightweight Python library for mana... by zzzeek on Wednesday May 28, 2025 @03:13PM (#44119620)
that appears to be because the maintainers have chosen not to release any files

https://pypi.org/project/graph-tool/

that's not a limitation of pip, that's a limitation of the maintainers of graph-tool

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Re:Show HN: Wetlands – a lightweight Python library for mana... by krapht on Wednesday May 28, 2025 @08:47PM (#44121988)
I agree, and yet here we are. If it wasn't built with automake I would even consider getting wheels built on the projects behalf, but I can't make heads or tails of M4.

EDIT: But let's not pretend getting cibuildwheel going for every supported variant of PythonMajVer/OS/(32/64) bit is an easy lift for small open source projects. Conda is still more ergonomic than this, although it's slowly dying because big projects have the manpower to stand up and maintain the CI pipeline for PyPI, so Conda is less and less necessary.

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