On 31 October 2015 at 12:54, Ethan White wrote: | +1. It would be great to transition the work the current Windows Installer is | doing to conda if possible.
I find it more than a little ironic that earlier suggestions of going with something portable such as Docker (disclaimer: that is something I and others suggested once or twice) were dismissed yet everybody seems overjoyed at the thought of jumping into bed with a single vendor solution. I have been part of Debian for over twenty years, building (and designing) countless packages (including Octave for a few years and now R for well over a decade) and have seen how a coherent installation and dependency system can work wonders. I would much prefer to see work on (say) nuget for Windoze, brew for OS X and something for apt/yum for those of us on the third rail. We don't need to reinvent packaging. Dirk PS I have absolutely no animosity against Contiunuum. Were I to be responsible for, say, installing a Python stack for a hundred machines at, say, a company site I might pick them too. I just don't think they should be the be-all-end-all for us here. PPS I am really not interested in a drawn-out discussion. There appears to be more than enough suppport for conda, so by all means get on with it. I simply wanted to voice a little oppostion on engineering and dependency grounds. Peace, over and out. -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | [email protected] _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
