Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by theamk 541 days ago
The problem is a lot of Python source is actually a C/C++ file, so simply having "source based package manager for Python" is very annoying, as you'd have to manage your C/C++ sources with some other mechanisms.

This is exactly the reason I've moved from pip to conda for some projects: "pip" was acting a source-based package manager, and thus asking for C tools, libraries and dev headers to be installed - but not providing them as they were non-Python and thus declared out of scope. Especially on older Linux distributions, getting dependencies right can be quite a task.
1 comments
vel0city 541 days ago
This used to be a big headache for me, especially having developers on Windows but deployment targets in Linux, but a lot of the libraries I commonly use these days are either pure python or ship wheels for the platforms I use.

Were your issues recent or from several years ago?

link
theamk 540 days ago
The issues were recent (as of few months ago), but the OS's were pretty old - Ubuntu 20.04 and even 18.04. Those are still officially supported with Ubuntu Pro (free for individuals), but have ancient libraries and Python versions.
link