[mahtuag]

Situation:

I install Python locally (w/o the OS-level package manager which doesn't have Python 3.5 yet) and would like to install the SciPy stack which depends on a bunch of C libraries only supplied by the Linux distro I am using.

What I'd Like:

Something like npm's package.json or pip's requirements.txt where I can declare the semantically versioned C/C++ dependencies of a project; doing conan install should fetch and install those dependencies so that pip can (as a future feature) invoke this before installing the SciPy stack and not pause a dozen times complaining about a missing dev dependency.

Does conan solve this problem ? If no, what alternatives do I have ?

Depending on OS-supplied libraries is a royal pain because they are almost always outdated.

I'm all for one idiomatic package manager per language/platform (as it is today for a lot of recent ones) which simplifies dependency management significantly.