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So the argument is because Windows and osx don't have sane (or any) package management everyone else has to suffer? The work having gone into reimplementing pyt

So the argument is because Windows and osx don't have sane (or any) package management everyone else has to suffer? The work having gone into reimplementing python package managers alone would have been enough to implement an interface for every one of the major Linux package managers many times over (there are also several translation tools available as well). I do concede that Linux package managers should make it easy to install as users as well.

StefanKarpinski 5y ago
You say that as if fairness has anything to do with it. It doesn’t. Programming languages need to let people install packages on all the major platforms. End of story. Any approach that doesn’t make that practical and scalable is dead in the water regardless of fairness. Even just on Linuxes, there’s enough package manager variation to kill that idea for installing language-level packages with all the different system-level package managers. If you want to lobby all the Linux distros and Apple and Microsoft to adopt a common package installation standard, that would be great but until that happens, that’s just not a feasible way for languages to install packages.