Utilizing the conda and pip package managers

submitted by trident765 from self.FreedIt

I am looking at the saidit dependencies here:

https://github.com/libertysoft3/saidit/tree/master/install

I am noticing that a lot the packages installed here with the platform-specific apt-get package manager have corresponding packages available on the non-platform-specific conda and pip package managers. Has anyone thought about converting the installation scripts to work with conda or pip, so that you can install saidit on a non-ubuntu machine? This would have the added benefit of the dependencies being installable to a python virtual environment, so you have a way of encapsulating the installation without needing to worry about docker or VMs.

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These are the roughest dependencies that have forced ubuntu 14 to remain in place: https://launchpad.net/~reddit/+archive/ubuntu/ppa?field.series_filter=trusty

Especially:

  • fbthrift
  • folly
  • baseplate
  • pycassa
  • pylons

All of the ones that have 'reddit' in the version have been modified by Reddit.

I'm all ears on ways to avoid this. In my mind the whole thing needs a re-write to python 3 and away from anything Reddit or Facebook authored.

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All of the ones that have 'reddit' in the version have been modified by Reddit.

Damn reddit.

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I bet the ppas could be ported away from Ubuntu 14 apt like you are saying, but it still seems very labor intensive to get all of these super old services running on a newer OS. Postgres 9 and Cassandra 1. I thought docker was supposed to be the answer.