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Thea (Stargirl) Flowers ✨ Music technologist, synth designer, and so much more ✨ PSF Fellow ✨ She/her

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2024-07-26 15:56:40

Man this place is way cooler than Twitter, are there any folks I should be following that I might've missed over the last few months?

2023-01-16 05:45:24

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The packages they use, however, are complex fucking monsters. They're a mix of C, C++, FORTAN, Haskell, Julia, and god knows what else. They don't want to waste time installing build tools and compiling these things. Their packages need to be precompiled and ready to go.

2023-01-16 05:45:01

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So OS vendors want Python to be invisible to the user. They want it for system purposes, and they want to distribute python apps, scripts, and packages on their own terms. Cool. Let's pick another group: academics and researchers.
They want to do their research. They don't want to program Python. They want to work their data, create visualizations, and very importantly: they want fellow researchers to be able to use their code. These folks don't really want to think about packaging.

2023-01-16 05:44:39

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Some don't even know they're using Python! Here's some examples: Python's in the Linux Standard Base and bunch of critical Linux stuff is written in Python. Distros gotta package those & their deps into their package database (deb/rpm).
Most distros want nothing to do with the language-specific package manager. They want to manage everything though rpm/deb/portage/whatever and they don't want you fucking around with system packages. Ever got burned by Python included with macOS? Yeah, same deal

2023-01-16 05:44:19

So You Want to Solve Python Packaging: A Practical Guide
First, the technical: Python is used by vastly different groups of people, some that don't identify as "developers". Those groups often have disparate expectations about how packaging should work. Some don't even know what a package is.