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0 pointsinferiorhuman3y ago0 comments

  Saying anaconda is worthless because its maintainers
  don't expend a ton of effort on making your particular
  niche more convenient is the actual toxicity...

Good thing that's not what I'm saying. The problem with Anaconda isn't that it doesn't support BSD (or whatever), the problem is that by using Anaconda you prevent a project from building on anything that Anaconda doesn't support. It's a poor design that simply saddles python with vendor lock-in and, yes, that is toxic.

It's a ridiculous non-solution given that even in the data science context most stuff is POSIX compatible. If I can get R and Python on their own to work without hassle, there's no reason a mere package manager should throw up unnecessary walls.

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bayesian_horse3y ago

I think this discussion is pointless. No "project" depends on conda/anaconda, because a package manager, in Python, is a means of deployment at most. If indeed you have some project that comes with a conda environment description (or dockerfile or whatever) then all you need to do to make it run on BSD is figure out a way that works on BSD. Of which there are certainly many. It's really just that conda environments are pretty damn convenient for Windows and Linux in the context of numerical libraries.

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