> Either people responsible for packaging have some vague or precise understanding of how their code is used, on which systems, what are its dependencies
But with python it’s a total mess. I’ve been using automatic1111 lately to generate stable diffusion images. The tool maintains multiple multi-hundred line script files for each OS which try to guess the correct version of all the dependencies to download and install. What a mess! And why is the job of figuring out the right version of pytorch the job of an end user program? I don’t know if PyTorch is uniquely bad at this, but all this work is the job of a package manager with well designed packages.
It should be as easy as “cargo run” to run the program, no matter how many or how few dependencies there are. No matter what operating system I’m using. Even npm does a better job of this than python.
But with python it’s a total mess. I’ve been using automatic1111 lately to generate stable diffusion images. The tool maintains multiple multi-hundred line script files for each OS which try to guess the correct version of all the dependencies to download and install. What a mess! And why is the job of figuring out the right version of pytorch the job of an end user program? I don’t know if PyTorch is uniquely bad at this, but all this work is the job of a package manager with well designed packages.
It should be as easy as “cargo run” to run the program, no matter how many or how few dependencies there are. No matter what operating system I’m using. Even npm does a better job of this than python.