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Notice how you were able to call out the de facto package manager for those languages, but didn't for Python? I would imagine supporting the various Python pack

Notice how you were able to call out the de facto package manager for those languages, but didn't for Python? I would imagine supporting the various Python package managers in use would be a bit annoying.

nerdponx 7y ago
If anything, Pip is so tightly integrated into Python that people probably forget they are separate projects.
lvh 7y ago
pip is the default package manager for Python, and while anaconda knows how to install from PyPI, you just pip install things into anaconda environments. So, the answer is "pip".
mikepurvis 7y ago
Third party proprietary tools like bintray/artifactory manage to do it without too much trouble. Honestly, there aren't really that many formats to support for Python these days— if you don't mind kicking some legacy to the curb, sdist, bdist, and whl pretty much covers it— any other splintering of the ecosystem is on the tooling side, but all the tools that matter still generate one or more of those three formats as the archive.
- takeda 7y ago
  Actually bdist is legacy is not even used anymore you basically use whl (bdist_wheel), generate packages for specific platform and also provide sdist (source) so people that use platform you forgot about still can use your package. If you're lazy you can just upload sdist.
takeda 7y ago
There's only one - PyPI used by pip, and you can run it on a basic web server. There only other that I heard is anaconda, but that's made by 3rd party (not affiliated fir PSF), it is not just Python but also R since it targets scientific community. I also believe it is primarily used by windows users. It is packaging for scientific tools that happen to also have python. Edit: from another comment I see that underneath anaconda apparently uses PyPI for python packages (I didn't know, since I never used it) so it is not even a proper repo, just an abstraction to PyPI (and possibly whatever R is using)

nerdponx 7y ago

If anything, Pip is so tightly integrated into Python that people probably forget they are separate projects.

lvh 7y ago

pip is the default package manager for Python, and while anaconda knows how to install from PyPI, you just pip install things into anaconda environments. So, the answer is "pip".

mikepurvis 7y ago

Third party proprietary tools like bintray/artifactory manage to do it without too much trouble. Honestly, there aren't really that many formats to support for Python these days— if you don't mind kicking some legacy to the curb, sdist, bdist, and whl pretty much covers it— any other splintering of the ecosystem is on the tooling side, but all the tools that matter still generate one or more of those three formats as the archive.

takeda 7y ago
Actually bdist is legacy is not even used anymore you basically use whl (bdist_wheel), generate packages for specific platform and also provide sdist (source) so people that use platform you forgot about still can use your package. If you're lazy you can just upload sdist.

takeda 7y ago

There's only one - PyPI used by pip, and you can run it on a basic web server. There only other that I heard is anaconda, but that's made by 3rd party (not affiliated fir PSF), it is not just Python but also R since it targets scientific community. I also believe it is primarily used by windows users. It is packaging for scientific tools that happen to also have python. Edit: from another comment I see that underneath anaconda apparently uses PyPI for python packages (I didn't know, since I never used it) so it is not even a proper repo, just an abstraction to PyPI (and possibly whatever R is using)