On: Mise: a polyglot tool version manager

[jdblair]

From my limited experience, python version management is crazy!

I've written medium sized personal python projects. I wasn't so concerned with reproducibility (and I didn't want to bog down my progress) but I still had to write startup scripts that would set up the environment correctly or I would be bit by something unexpected.

I write this from the perspective of a multi-decade c and c++ developer, take this for what you will.

[simonw → jdblair]

Which package management strategy did you use? Virtualenv + pip + requirements.txt, Poetry, something else?

[akvadrako → jdblair]

If you find the python specific tooling too weird just use OCI containers. The packaging and runtime is isolated enough you shouldn't run into dependency or installation issues.

[jdxcode → jdblair]

I bet you half of the codebase is dedicated to support python's bizarre idiosyncrasies.