On 3 December 2013 19:11, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 3 December 2013 08:48, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> And wouldn't it be better to make wheel a bit more robust in this regard >>> than add yet another recommended tool to the mix? >> >> Software that works today is generally more useful to end users than >> software that might possibly handle their use case at some currently >> unspecified point in the future :) > > See my experience with conda under Windows. While I'm not saying that > conda "doesn't work", being directed to software that turns out to > have its own set of bugs, different to the ones you're used to, is a > pretty frustrating experience.
Yeah, I hit the one where it tries to upgrade the symlinked Python in a virtualenv on POSIX systems and fails: https://github.com/ContinuumIO/conda/issues/360 > (BTW, I raised a bug report. For anyone else that is curious: https://github.com/ContinuumIO/conda/issues/396 In looking for a clear explanation of the runtime compatibility requirements for extensions, I realised that such a thing doesn't appear to exist. And then I realised I wasn't aware of the existence of *any* good overview of C extensions for Python, their benefits, their limitations, alternatives to creating them by hand, and that such a thing might be a good addition to the "Advanced topics" section of the packaging user guide: https://bitbucket.org/pypa/python-packaging-user-guide/issue/36/add-a-section-that-covers-binary > Let's see > what the response is like...) Since venv in Python 3.4 has a working --copies option, I bashed away at the conda+venv combination a bit more, and filed another couple of conda bugs: Gets shebang lines wrong in a virtual environment: https://github.com/ContinuumIO/conda/issues/397 Doesn't currently support "python -m conda": https://github.com/ContinuumIO/conda/issues/398 Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
