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My experience too. I was shocked how terrible Python ecosystem is. For example stuff like dependency confusion i.e. public package with potentially malicious c
by Isinlor 6y ago
My experience too. I was shocked how terrible Python ecosystem is.
For example stuff like dependency confusion i.e. public package with potentially malicious code overwriting private package are impossible in Composer by design.
https://twitter.com/seldaek/status/1359417655762055171 https://twitter.com/seldaek/status/1359417655762055171
But pip, npm and RubyGems failed to protect against dependency confusion. So Apple, Microsoft and dozens of other companies pulled malicious code.
https://medium.com/@alex.birsan/dependency-confusion-4a5d60fec610 https://medium.com/@alex.birsan/dependency-confusion-4a5d60f...
We are very lucky to have awesome Jordi Boggiano in the PHP ecosystem.
He is doing gods work on Composer and Packgist.