[mbrudd]

> Make a new venv for everything and don’t pollute the global environment and it should be fine.

This just proves the point that Python sucks at managing dependencies, which exacerbates -- perhaps even encourages -- the reproducibility issues being discussed.

[icedchai]

How's that? Similar approaches are used elsewhere. Python just makes the creation of the virtualenv more explicit. npm doesn't pollute the global environment either, by default.