[acomjean]

I think it depends on the use case. If I'm developing my own stuff my peen package management is fine.

If trying to run various existing python programs to analyze biology data, I soon run into various problems. Is this a Conda?/ or can I use my Python environment? which version of python? will let me run the thing and what libraries do I need? This breaks in that version?

Sometimes I feel that one kinda ok way of doing things, would be better than having 6 ways , one of which will suit my use case perfectly.

This problem is not unique to python.

[dfsegoat]

> Is this a Conda?/ or can I use my Python environment?

Can you elaborate a bit there? I use conda because I like some of their features over standard virtualenv (being able to specify a python version when i create my venv) - but I've never had a problem running code in env's created by one vs. the other.

[acomjean]

Sometimes developers distribute their software via Conda installs, in those cases they sometimes don't provide instructions on running other ways (eg using the pyenv environment which is my default. ). I'm ok with this, but when conda fails as sometimes happens, it can mean some digging to get the install to work.

I was thinking of my latest install, which was CRISPRESSO2, which installs via docker or bioconda... I was able to get it going, but it took a bit on some systems.. (Python 2.7 old libraries.. etc..) Docker didn't seem to work.

I like virtual env, but sometimes I feel I have to have a new environment for each piece of software I'm running, which feels weird.

https://github.com/pinellolab/CRISPResso2