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I work in HPC, and for all the Python programmers I come across, I'm surprised at how few of them know details about package management etc. Of course I'm qui
by bluedino 2y ago
I work in HPC, and for all the Python programmers I come across, I'm surprised at how few of them know details about package management etc.
Of course I'm quite a bit biased because the majority of these people are coming to me for help...
Back to Anaconda. It's great system, and the problem is people learn how to use ML or whatever using Anaconda, and then when they get into the workplace, you need a license.
I really wish organizations would just buy licenses for the users that want them, it's so much of a pain to work around not having Anaconda. Their prebuilt packages are pretty helpful and time-saving, even thought you "don't need it" and you can get along with using just pip, but you'll have to provide workarounds for projects that use Conda.
- scrlk 2y agoThe Anaconda Distribution has pretty good coverage of what scientific/technical Python users require. I'd wager that they rarely need to concern themselves about package management. I had a pretty rough time with Anaconda Team Edition when it was rolled out by my employer. The security team required that any package with a high CVE score be filtered out of the on-prem repository. Fair enough, but it just led to packages and dependencies being constantly broken. IIRC, it wasn't possible to give normal users the ability to view CVE scores, which just compounded the issue.