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phronimos | 9 months ago

Conda manages binaries and their native dependencies together, including shared libraries[0]. This offers significant advantages over uv and pip when distributing packages with C extensions, such as dependency resolution that accounts for shared library requirements, and better package isolation.

[0]: https://docs.conda.io/projects/conda-build/en/latest/resourc...

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reedf1|9 months ago

Use PDM with the UV backend - this accomplishes this in a much more lightweight and performant way.

agoose77|9 months ago

The PyPI ecosystem can not, for the foreseeable future, replicate the scope of the conda ecosystem. From microarch builds to library deduplication, conda is a more general purpose solution. That doesn't mean that one "wins out" (and, for reference I predominantly use Python's PyPI), but they're not the same tools.

aeroevan|9 months ago

Does PDM manage C/Fortran library dependencies? IIRC conda was the only solution for managing both native and python dependencies but I haven't really looked elsewhere.

With wheels and the manylinux specifications there's less of a usecase for that, but still could be useful