PyTorch and the PyPI supply chain [LWN.net]

PyTorch and the PyPI supply chain

Posted Jan 12, 2023 17:01 UTC (Thu) by Sesse (subscriber, #53779)
In reply to: PyTorch and the PyPI supply chain by mpr22
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Which is, ironically, one of the language package managers that is the least painful to integrate into distributions, and one of the languages with the best track of backwards compatibility in modules.

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PyTorch and the PyPI supply chain

Posted Jan 22, 2023 9:42 UTC (Sun) by oldtomas (guest, #72579) [Link]

Perhaps ironical, but not surprising.

I think Perl's growth happened at a time where "fitting in an environment" was the obvious thing to do. One data point? POD has as one of its main targets man pages.

Python (re- [1]) started a trend which I'll call "language monotheism", where each language had (or thought it had) to fight for absolute dominance. I think this might be something for computer sociologists to study some day.

[1] Not the first round, mind you. Older people might remember C vs Pascal, quiche eaters and that. Of course, nowadays, in the era of overabundance, survival and money are more at stake than back then.