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Re:Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in... by dekhn on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @07:55PM (#45754685)
If I find myself reaching a point where I would need to deal with ABIs and binary compatiblity, I pretty much stop there and say "is my workload so important that I need to recompile half the world to support it" and the answer (for me) is always no.
Re:Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in... by okanat on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @08:03PM (#45754743)
Well handling OS-dependent binary dependency is still unsolved because of the intricate behavior of native libraries and especially how tightly C and C++ compilers integrate with their base operating systems. vcpkg, Conan, containers, Yocto, Nix all target a limited slice of it. So there is not a fully satisfactory solution. Pixi comes very close though.

Conda ecosystem is forced to solve this problem to a point since ML libraries and their binary backends are terrible at keeping their binaries ABI-stable. Moreover different GPUs have different capabilities and support different versions of the GPGPU execution engines like CUDA. There is no easy way out without solving dependency hell.

Re:Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in... by saagarjha on Thursday October 30, 2025 @04:52AM (#45757754)
If you’re writing code for an accelerator, surely you care enough to make sure you can properly target it?