[Shog9]

Reproducibility? No.

Not having to regularly rebuild the whole dev environment because I need to work on one particular Python app once a quarter and its build chain reliably breaks other stuff? Priceless.

[janjongboom]

This false sense of reproducability is why I funded https://docs.stablebuild.com/ some years ago. It lets you pin stuff in dockerfiles that are normally unpinnable like OS package repos, docker hub tags and random files on the internet. So you can go back to a project a year from now and actually get the same container back again.

[jselysianeagle]

Isn't this problem usually solved by building an actual image for your specific application, tagging that and pushing to some docker repo? At least that's how it's been at placec I've worked at that used docker. What am I missing?

[northzen]

Use pixi or uv to maintain this specific environment and separate it from the global one

[sroerick]

I know this pain, and Docker absolutely makes sense for this use case, but I feel like we would both agree that this is a duct tape and bubble gum solution? Though a totally justifiable one

[Shog9]

Oh sure. 20 years ago I used VMs and that was also a duct tape solution. I'd have hoped for a proper solution by now, but a lighter hack works too