Re: unifying package formats
"Alex Walters" <[email protected]>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Antonio Cavallo <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2019 6:01 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Distutils] unifying package formats > > Hi, > is there any initiative to share a common package format between conda and > pip? They look very similar. > > Thanks They look similar, but they have very different scopes. Pip is for the python environment only. Conda acts more like a python focused, system-isolated APT. Unifying packaging for the general python ecosystem (wheels hosted on pypi installed with pip) with conda (full stack dependency management, including large quantities of foreign code) is likely to be impossible, and even if possible, impractical. -- Distutils-SIG mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/distutils-sig.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/KMKL7KYUEAPU5CFFP6G7NHQFLWTPQQXA/