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I think this is an interesting case where people just want different things, and so the thing that they want is "better". Some people really just want Python+e
by verall 5y ago
I think this is an interesting case where people just want different things, and so the thing that they want is "better".
Some people really just want Python+extras and don't want to worry about getting a fortran compiler. Conda is great for this.
Other people really don't want a big meta-install system that bundles a bunch of dependencies. Maybe they're on Linux, they target a single platform, or they want to use a package not in conda that works with a more recent version of the dependencies that conda bundles.
- dagw 5y agoI think this is an interesting case where people just want different things For some people Python is really more of an end user application. They don't want to develop and distribute and deploy software, they want to write scripts and analyze and transform data. They expect the script a colleague emailed them to just work and expect their colleague to be able to open and run their Jupyter notebook as easily as they can open and run an Excel document. For those people Conda comes much closer to solving their problems.