On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 2:50 PM, Michael Orlitzky <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Ah, I didn't know about Gentoo Prefix at all. Thanks, that's worth looking into as well. I think it will be great to get Sage's dependencies available on as many downstream packaging systems as possible. -- 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.
