Courtès: What's in a package [LWN.net]

Courtès: What's in a package

Posted Sep 23, 2021 7:41 UTC (Thu) by NAR (subscriber, #1313)
In reply to: Courtès: What's in a package by LtWorf
Parent article: Courtès: What's in a package

Yeah, they'd just put a curl ... | bash ... command on their website...

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Courtès: What's in a package

Posted Sep 23, 2021 9:43 UTC (Thu) by LtWorf (subscriber, #124958) [Link] (1 responses)

But not being installable as a normal library… It would be much more rare for it to be used as a dependency.

Courtès: What's in a package

Posted Sep 23, 2021 12:18 UTC (Thu) by t-v (guest, #112111) [Link]

Have you used it (or the most obvious comparison point, tensorflow) much?

Similar to what NAR suggests, is that my impression from hanging out on the PyTorch forums is that most people pick whatever version they want and then copy-paste whatever

https://pytorch.org/get-started/locally/

tells them to.
Personally, I doubt that people have PyTorch installed automatically through dependencies that much, it would be hit-or-miss if it works with their hardware etc.

From the forums it looks like people are using conda a lot with PyTorch, I don't know if there is a way to distinguish CI-based downloads from human ones in PyPI.