[Redoubts]

* > - Python developers don't seem to grasp the notion that installing a lot of python dependencies on a production server is not a very desirable thing. Doing that sucks, to put it mildly. *

I do find this pet particularly annoying, since this project sits uncomfortably between library and appliance.

In an appliance, yeah sure you can pick and lock down whatever dependencies you want. But as a library you need to be lean and hyper flexible in what’s an acceptable dependency.

Airflow invites you to put a lot of logic into what runs in their venv, which may mean your project’s dependencies must include all of theirs. Being in that state is rather unfun.