I'm not knowledgable enough on the whole package thing to comment on how good this solution is but it looks appealing to me.<p>I've suffered with pip doing almost everything I need but then struggling to install scipy etc. Any competitor to the space that can alleviate the pain is most welcome.<p>I know Armin had a rant about this last year [0]. Would love to hear thoughts by people that understand this far better than me.<p>[0] <a href="http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2012/6/22/hate-hate-hate-everywhere/" rel="nofollow">http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2012/6/22/hate-hate-hate-everywhere/</a>
I, too, have been bitten by python packaging. The clarity that conda provides about what it is doing, and what goes where, is a big improvement over the current soup of easy-install and (to a lesser extent) pip.<p>That said, I'd still rather have a leiningen equivalent.
Is this related to Anaconda (the OS installer on RHEL, CentOS, and derivatives?). I couldn't tell if it is. If it is not please consider not calling it Anaconda.<p>It is even more confusing because Anaconda is concerned with installing OS packages, configuration and initialization.<p>I can see this dialog happening:<p>-- Have you updated the package in Anaconda?<p>-- Yes. It installs the numpy package.<p>-- Ok cool. Make sure it also configures your yum repos.<p>-- What yum repos?<p>-- You know rpms repos?<p>-- There are no rpms in Anaconda?
Why can't modules[0] be used for managing different versions?<p>[0]<a href="http://modules.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow">http://modules.sourceforge.net/</a>
pip works great. The entire problem has been that easy_install and setuptools will not get out of the way. They would not fix their screwups for a long time. Now they have been broken long enough that it doesn't matter if they did fix up. THE problem with packaging in Python is too many package managers. Please stop!