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IMHO the problem with python package management isn't python package management. The biggest problem I've hit is when python depends on non-python - `pip instal

IMHO the problem with python package management isn't python package management. The biggest problem I've hit is when python depends on non-python - `pip install` failing because I need to `apt install libsomething-dev` is the big one, but also managing multiple versions of python itself (I count this as a dependency on non-python because the python3 binary isn't written in python - if it was, then pip+virtualenv could manage it like everything else). And also as you note there's just ecosystem churn.

eternityforest 2y ago
If we could reboot all of computer science, I'd want one unified cross platform package manager with the same market takeover level as Git, and all languages designed to be aware of it. No file system overlay stacking or anything, no file system hierarchy of different folders for different types of resources, just python style search paths and virtual environments, and no global environment allowed, ever. But Python development is pretty nice at the moment so I can't complain.