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Working in 3D graphics there are lots of different constraints unfortunately and it isn't an easy solution. A lot of 3d graphics houses have to roll their own solution. This is a famous one in the cycle and a common approach-> https://github.com/nerdvegas/rez The issue is that the environment varies a lot and there's usually a lot of C++ code that needs to be compiled to interact with the python plugins based on different environments with 500+ libraries mixing & matching...

> huge hacks like Nix are born in this quest. Would you mind elaborating on this? Maybe I'm using Linux wrong, but Nix seems like a huge step forward fixing a lot of my frustrations. Admittedly, I haven't used it in production. One huge benefit of language-specific package managers is having multiple versions of packages on the same system and you can choose which you'd like for the project (without changing the OS). I feel like 10 years ago I heard a lot of grumbling about languages like Ruby or Python should just use apt/rpm, but I haven't see any OS package manager put much effort into this use-case (this is ignoring mac/win support). The closest I've seen is something like Red Hat's Software Collections. Personally, I feel strongly that any software that's critical to your company should be decoupled from the OS. This is borne th

I know nothing about this Fedora tech (but am really curious). Windows and macOS don't mix libraries and Applications with a packaging system and Linux distros do. I've always felt like the packaging systems for each OS had very different goals and most all of the Linux distro's packaging systems had way too much overlap to warrant different tech. When you're talking about packaging systems for macOS and Windows are you talking about things like Homebrew/Chocolatey or their interface for installing applications? I just don't see other OSes handling these things any better. I've been in the camp that language-specific package managers shouldn't have to be a thing. I'm on your side in that I think it's ridiculous that package managers have belligerent towards language-specific package managers (they'll package up libraries for language

By reading your comment and a little bit of the package declarations in some nix packages, it seems like the software package system of nix is very similar to rez. Rez ( https://github.com/nerdvegas/rez ) is used by some visual effects companies (including mine) to manage software packages. It allows us to have great flexibility in the mix & match of software versions and runtime environments.

First time asking here. Hi everyone! At my employer (a visual effects house) we use CentOS, Windows and OSX, with various softwares. The internal code is mostly Python, but there's a bit of C as well. We are looking for a generic package manager for internal use that can resolve package dependencies and assemble environments with specific versions to make our dev life a little better. We're currently considering Rez: https://github.com/nerdvegas/rez which (if you've never heard of it) is a Python-powered, software-agnostic, platform-agnostic packager, dependency resolver and environment prep'er. It's a cool project, but some of us are convinced that someone must have solved the problem of cross-platform packaging and environment handling already. So far, the only similar project I've found is "conda": http://conda.pydata.org/docs/ Do you