Hello colleague, On Monday, October 5, 2015 at 9:49:50 PM UTC+2, [email protected] wrote: > > This must be the most reported problem with Julia packages. Perhaps we've > allowed the dependency stack to become much too long. Typically the error > trace is impenetrable to anyone but one of the package maintainers, and > often not them because it's in a deeper dependency for which they're not > responsible. Something to think about long term as Julia becomes more > widely used. This sort of stuff can drive people away quickly to more > reliable stacks such as R and Python. (Not saying better or that we can't > use multiple tools, just that this kind of package mgmt. fragility is not a > good thing.) > > > *Looks like pixma is the culprit. I had other problems with Julia 0.3.11. > Seems like 4.0 is getting so close that focus will shift.* > > *Suggestions?* >
Tony has a point, there seems to be https://github.com/staticfloat/homebrew-juliadeps/commit/dd8e27b9d2990ec8a6a47ec765c8d6f6a04b2a0f which looks like a similar problem. Overall i fully understand your position, that too many dependencies are pulled into a 'standard' work environment. And especially Homebrew (i'm not a OSX user) seems to be unstable. But i already had some fun with BinDeps on linux, too.
