Recharging the Python standard library

Re:Recharging the Python standard library by riffraff on Friday October 11, 2013 @11:46AM (#6533861)

I am not sure we've figured out how to do dependency management, on any platform.

E.g. even in scala land I got the feeling ivy/maven dependency management weren't universally loved, but maybe I am wrong?

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Re:Recharging the Python standard library by Oculus on Friday October 11, 2013 @12:01PM (#6533952)

I think we're getting pretty close to figure it out in the world of node with npm.

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Re:Recharging the Python standard library by riffraff on Friday October 11, 2013 @12:52PM (#6534301)

please correct me if I'm wrong because I just had a cursory look at NPM some time ago, but I believe

* it doesn't have virtual packages (in the sense, "'email-sender' is a package that provides a sendmail() function")

* it hardcodes a max of two dependency sets: runtime and dev. This maybe be better than a freeform Gemfile or a 6-scopes pom.xml but it seems quite arbitrary

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