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Wouldn't this be an issue with C too? Or anything that links against an external library?

• deleted 1y ago
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• tonyarkles 1y ago
  To a certain extent. The big difference being how difficult it would be to work around or update. If my C code is linking against a library whose API has changed, I can update my code to use the new API so that it builds. In the case I ran into… it wasn’t one of my dependencies that failed to build, it was a dependency’s dependency’s dependency with no clear road out of the mess. I could have done a whole series of pip install attempts to try to figure out the minimal version bump on my direct dependency that would use a version of the sub-dep that would compile and then adapt my Python code to use that version instead of the version it was pinned to originally.