Maybe I wasn't very clear -- I was addressing what conda might provide in the context of using conda packages with pip/pipy.
A conda environment provides a great deal more, yes. system-site-packages may very well be for a different version of the python interpreter and stdlib. Isn't that handled by the wheel meta-data? At least in practice -- Anaconda is delivering python.org compatible pythons. meta.yaml (w/ optional preprocessing # [selectors]) http://conda.pydata.org/docs/build.html calls build.sh or build.bat by default, at build time. Exactly -- you need to write those build scripts yourself. Conda does set up the environment for you (lib paths,etc) so it's often as easy as "./configure && make && make install", but if it's not (particularly on windows!) you've got to figure it out. Which brings in the community aspect -- a lot of stuff has been figured out. PPAs would be great Personal package archives? Can't we do that now with pip+wheel? Indeed, isn't that 1/2 of what binary wheels are for? And the only thing they are for on Linux? -Chris
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