On 03/11/2016 05:45 AM, Erik Bray wrote: > >> It also has few packages compared to Nix or Gentoo. Building packages >> from source is complicated, and there are a ton of corner cases and >> weird features that you need to support. It also quickly becomes >> necessary to have some way of sharing code. > > I don't the the number of packages is a fair comparison. It's not an > operating system--it started out for bundling scientific Python > software and nothing more. But since much of that software had > non-Python dependencies anyways... > >> So the tl;dr is, Conda looks promising because they haven't made any of >> the stupid mistakes (a) - (d) that immediately doom a package manager. >> But they're still 15 years behind. Why start over? > > Start over with what? It's an apples to oranges comparison. >
Start over with "let's figure out how to do cross-platform source-based package management." Why isn't it a fair comparison? Gentoo prefix, Nix, and Conda all do the same thing. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
