On Apr 18, 2014, at 5:08 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 18 April 2014 16:50, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote: >> So I’m not really worried about a competition or anything. I’m mostly worried >> about confusion of users. What you’re suggestion we give to use is *two* ways >> to install Python packages (and 2 or 3 ways to virtualize a Python instance). > > Note that one of my requirements was that "pip install foo" *must* do > the right thing in conda environments (whatever we decide the "right > thing" means in that context). It was buried at the end of a long > email though, so it would have been easy to miss. > > That means the instructions to new users can be simple and consistent > - use pip commands to manage Python things, conda commands to manage > other stuff. They'll likely discover in fairly short order that the > conda commands also work for Python things, but it can be explained > that not all environments are conda environments, and hence pip works > in more situations than conda does, but at the cost of being specific > to Python packages. > > Cheers, > Nick. > > -- > Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia Thinking about that and the implications of it. Next question, where even is the code for “Anaconda”? I tried to download it from their website and it’s behind an email form, I saw a link for github issues but it’s in a dedicated “anaconda-issues” repo which doesn’t have any code associated with it. Also to be honest i’m a little uncomfortable with the idea of Python.org pushing a platform where the company that develops the platform sells Add-ons to that platform. So while Anaconda itself may be free and open source the fact that the Anaconda distribution is a gateway to a particular company’s paid add ons makes me feel a bit like a government sponsored monopoly kind of thing? I’m not using good words here to describe what I mean, but it feels kind of icky to me. ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA
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