Le nonidi 19 nivôse, an CCXXV, li...@rickv.com a écrit : > re 1: It's not a bad thing to use a separate package manager for your > Python projects if you're getting into development with Python.
Actually, it is a bad thing. Package managers specialized for one language are convenient for the developers heavily involved in that language, but for everybody else they are a terrible thing. For one, they do not integrate with the system package manager and its security updates. People usually remember to do the security updates, but they never remember to update the programs installed separately, and even more so the libraries that were installed automatically. Second, and this is more insidious: by giving developers too much control over the versions of the libraries, they lead them to be careless with compatibility. That means they will easily depend on a very bleeding-edge version of a library, or on an older one that is no longer maintained for security. In both cases, it is very annoying for the end users. The language-specific package systems came to exist because of a flaw in most distros: it is impossible to install specific packages as simple users, nor without risking to break the whole system. But they are a bad solution to a real problem. Unfortunately, now they exist. And unfortunately, Debian still suffers from the flaw. That means sometimes using the language-specific package systems is unavoidable. But developers need to be aware of the issue to try and mitigate its consequences. In particular, whenever possible, they should use the libraries present as real packages in stable. Regards, -- Nicolas George
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