Comment by zahlman
15 hours ago
Scenarios like that are simply not realistic. Besides which, multiple solutions exist for bundling Python with an application.
15 hours ago
Scenarios like that are simply not realistic. Besides which, multiple solutions exist for bundling Python with an application.
Scenarios like that occur daily. I do quite a bit of software development and whenever I come across something that really needs python I mentally prepare for a day of battle with the various (all subtly broken) package managers, dependency hell and circular nonsense to the point that I am also ready to give up on it after a day of trying.
Just recently: a build of a piece of software that itself wasn't written in python but that urgently needed a very particular version of it with a whole bunch of dependencies that refused to play nice with Anaconda for some reason (which in spite of the fact that it too is becoming less reliable is probably still the better one). The solution? Temporarily move andaconda to a backup directory, remove the venv activation code from .bashrc and compile the project, then restore everything to the way it was before (which I need it to be because I have some other stuff on the stove that is built using python because there isn't anything else).
And let's not go into bluetooth device support in python, anything involving networking that is a little bit off the beaten path and so on.
> Scenarios like that occur daily. I do quite a bit of software development and whenever I come across something that really needs python I mentally prepare for a day of battle with the various (all subtly broken) package managers, dependency hell and circular nonsense to the point that I am also ready to give up on it after a day of trying.
Please name a set of common packages that causes this problem reliably.
You're getting a bit boring, and are not arguing in good faith. "Reliably"... as per your definition I guess. You have now made 60(!!!) comments in this thread questioning everything and everybody without ever once accepting that other people's experiences do not necessarily have to match your own. If you did some reading rather than just writing you'd have seen that I gave a very specific example right in this thread. You are now going on my blocklist because I really don't have time or energy to argue with language zealots.