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I use pip 100% of the time

by shpx 3y ago

thesuperbigfrog 3y ago
>> I use pip 100% of the time What about pipenv, poetry, conda, setuptools, hatch, micropipenv, PDM, pip-tools, ActiveState platform, homebrew, or your Linux / BSD distro's package manager?
- bsder 3y ago
  As much as I love to rag on things, I would go so far as to say that the big problem with Python packaging is the fact that it tries to manage C/C++ packaging and integration. If Python is only managing Python code, the issues to be solved are VASTLY simpler. Just about anything works. Once it has to deal with dynamic libraries, compiled code, plugins, build systems, etc. the combinatorial explosion just makes life suck.
  - thesuperbigfrog 3y ago
    Python is a victim of its own success and versatility. It has become a better "glue code to solve your problem" than many other solutions and so people want to use it everywhere for everything. It gets packaged in many different ways because it gets used in many different ways for many different purposes.
    - bluGill 3y ago
      Packaging is a difficult problem and all attempts to simplify things fail to understand how complex the problem is and so fail in some way. (Attempts like .deb do okay by only focusing on a subset of the problem)
- shpx 3y ago
  I use none of those except for homebrew, but I didn't mention it because it's for installing complete programs that happen to be written in Python, not Python dependencies for when I'm working with Python.
- what-no-tests 3y ago
  You forgot about egg!
selcuka 3y ago
pip (with venvs, which is a built-in Python feature) covers 99% percent of all use cases. Yes, its dependency resolution could have been better, and lock files are nice (which can be emulated using constraints [1]) but I don't understand why people are so busy writing alternatives. I work on pretty sophisticated codebases on a daily basis and haven't used anything but pip. [1] https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/user_guide/#constraints-files https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/user_guide/#constraints-files
bowsamic 3y ago
Good for you but many don’t. Most people I know use Anaconda and install things with Conda

I use pip 100% of the time

by shpx 3y ago

I use pip 100% of the time

>> I use pip 100% of the time What about pipenv, poetry, conda, setuptools, hatch, micropipenv, PDM, pip-tools, ActiveState platform, homebrew, or your Linux / BSD distro's package manager?

bsder 3y ago
As much as I love to rag on things, I would go so far as to say that the big problem with Python packaging is the fact that it tries to manage C/C++ packaging and integration. If Python is only managing Python code, the issues to be solved are VASTLY simpler. Just about anything works. Once it has to deal with dynamic libraries, compiled code, plugins, build systems, etc. the combinatorial explosion just makes life suck.
- thesuperbigfrog 3y ago
  Python is a victim of its own success and versatility. It has become a better "glue code to solve your problem" than many other solutions and so people want to use it everywhere for everything. It gets packaged in many different ways because it gets used in many different ways for many different purposes.
  - bluGill 3y ago
    Packaging is a difficult problem and all attempts to simplify things fail to understand how complex the problem is and so fail in some way. (Attempts like .deb do okay by only focusing on a subset of the problem)
shpx 3y ago
I use none of those except for homebrew, but I didn't mention it because it's for installing complete programs that happen to be written in Python, not Python dependencies for when I'm working with Python.
what-no-tests 3y ago
You forgot about egg!

selcuka 3y ago

pip (with venvs, which is a built-in Python feature) covers 99% percent of all use cases. Yes, its dependency resolution could have been better, and lock files are nice (which can be emulated using constraints [1]) but I don't understand why people are so busy writing alternatives. I work on pretty sophisticated codebases on a daily basis and haven't used anything but pip. [1] https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/user_guide/#constraints-files https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/user_guide/#constraints-files

bowsamic 3y ago

Good for you but many don’t. Most people I know use Anaconda and install things with Conda