[nurtbo]

What’s the difference between putting it in the yaml file vs putting it in the uploaded built conda package? Isn’t it the same risk profile?

Is there some way that new recipes are auto-parsed by every client?

[Someone]

A yaml editor that does syntax coloring and wants to gray out lines that aren’t relevant to the current build might execute the code, but I hope they would at least sandbox that and, preferably opt out of supporting the full ’feature’, too.

[doctorpangloss]

You’re right.

But the dysfunction in Python packaging is nothing new. Everything with adoption appeals to the lowest common denominator.

Another POV is that “code conductors” have always vastly outnumbered actual programmers, but now that Python is ChatGPT’s expertise, does packaging matter? People will use whatever packages the LLM’s really cool notebook interface ships with, and nothing more. The environment doesn’t even have access to the Internet, and yet: here we are. The next 20 million Python developers - almost outnumbering all professional programmer combined - are going to get away with literally never installing a package.