PyTorch and the PyPI supply chain

Posted Jan 12, 2023 15:03 UTC (Thu) by rgmoore (✭ supporter ✭, #75)
In reply to: PyTorch and the PyPI supply chain by mpr22
Parent article: PyTorch and the PyPI supply chain

In Perl's defense, the modern distribution system didn't exist yet when CPAN started. CPAN was built at more or less the same time as modern distribution packaging systems, so waiting for packages to go up on the distribution wasn't a serious option. Even if people had been willing to wait a few years for that system to develop, nobody knew that it was going to develop, or even that Linux was going to win the Unix wars, so some kind of homebrew packaging system was necessary.