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by dralley 866 days ago
Why not compile those (python scientific) libraries from source? Why would PyO3 be acceptable while e.g. numpy is not?
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needing to compile them on the airgapped machine introduces more dependencies. Things also get weird when your airgapped machine is a slight version off from your dev machine. There's a lot of ways around it but we've found for the size of this tool, it was preferable to just write our own handful of math functions over building out a deployment method for extra dependencies.