[Pythonmac-SIG] Building plans .....

[Barry Scott]

> On 16 Mar 2020, at 22:54, Jack Jansen <jack.jansen at cwi.nl> wrote:
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>> but "conda" is a package management tool, a bit like yum or apt in the Linux world, or Brew, for that matter. except that:
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>> * It is platform independent -- it attempts to work the same way on all all platforms to the degree possible.
>> * It provides management of isolated "environments", so you can have a different collection of software and libraries, all with a different combination of version on the same system, isolated from one another.
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> So how does conda handle things that must be installed in “special” locations on some platforms? For example, if you install some package that contains a kernel driver, undoubtedly on windows this’ll have to go somewhere deep down in c:\system32 or something.

Does this force the use of conda on macOS python users?

Or is it just asking for a build option that is conda friendly?

I have been happy use the python.org <http://python.org/> builds and py2app + PyQt5.

Barry



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> Because in a way Python on the mac (if you want to use a framework/app/bundle Python) is like that: it has some platform-specific installation requirements (that bits of it go into /Library/Frameworks and other bits in /Application), and in the end you setup a few symlinks in the conda bin directory (or the conda per-environment bin directory, or however that works) and for a conda user the situation will be exactly the same on Mac as on Linux…..
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