[joana035]

>> beastly 5G docker image > my beastly 12GB image that even includes Matlab wants a word with you

Perhaps in the next 10 years we will be rediscovering packages. :P

If you are in the business of charging complex prices per bits over the network, then docker seems to be quite a good investment and making it as popular as possible is a good strategy to print money. /s

[disgruntledphd2]

> If you are in the business of charging complex prices per bits over the network, then docker seems to be quite a good investment and making it as popular as possible is a good strategy to print money. /s

True, that.

To be fair, at least it allows me to avoid lots of the brokenness of Python packaging.

[joana035]

Is always good to report packaging bugs so then people can fix them, do you have examples of python packages that can be improved?

[disgruntledphd2]

See my previous comments.

tl;dr pip silently breaks my environments, mostly connected to upgrading numpy and other scientific/data science libraries.

[core-questions]

Well, to be fair, it is packages - I'm just using Docker (for this section of our stack) as a different sort of VM, essentially. It runs a service manager and a VNC X session, for chrissakes ;)