> On 16 Mar 2020, at 22:54, Jack Jansen <jack.jan...@cwi.nl> wrote: > > >> >> but "conda" is a package management tool, a bit like yum or apt in the Linux >> world, or Brew, for that matter. except that: >> >> * It is platform independent -- it attempts to work the same way on all all >> platforms to the degree possible. >> * It provides management of isolated "environments", so you can have a >> different collection of software and libraries, all with a different >> combination of version on the same system, isolated from one another. > > > So how does conda handle things that must be installed in “special” locations > on some platforms? For example, if you install some package that contains a > kernel driver, undoubtedly on windows this’ll have to go somewhere deep down > in c:\system32 or something.
Does this force the use of conda on macOS python users? Or is it just asking for a build option that is conda friendly? I have been happy use the python.org <http://python.org/> builds and py2app + PyQt5. Barry > > Because in a way Python on the mac (if you want to use a framework/app/bundle > Python) is like that: it has some platform-specific installation requirements > (that bits of it go into /Library/Frameworks and other bits in /Application), > and in the end you setup a few symlinks in the conda bin directory (or the > conda per-environment bin directory, or however that works) and for a conda > user the situation will be exactly the same on Mac as on Linux….. > -- > Jack Jansen, <jack.jan...@cwi.nl <mailto:jack.jan...@cwi.nl>>, > http://www.cwi.nl/~jack <http://www.cwi.nl/~jack> > If I can't dance I don't want to be part of your revolution -- Emma Goldman > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig > unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/Pythonmac-SIG
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