[Info-vax] DECUServe is a Hobbyist Chapter

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 7/6/20 9:03 AM, David Wade wrote:
> On 05/07/2020 17:43, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 7/5/2020 3:39 AM, David Wade wrote:
>>> On 04/07/2020 21:49, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>>>> Stephen Hoffman  <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
>>>>> Fortran itself is starting to sprout a package manager with fpm, too:
>>>>> https://github.com/fortran-lang/fpm
>>>>
>>>> This is a disaster waiting to happen.  Notice how Python has turned 
>>>> into
>>>> a hellish mass of library dependencies that are constantly changing?
>>>
>>> I am still in shock over this. It took longer to figure out 
>>> dependancies that it did to build hardware. Error message says 
>>> install python3-ini when you need python3.8-ini. yuk.
>>
>> Did you try to get things manual instead of using pip?
>>
>> Or was the dependencies declared wrong so pip failed?
>>
>> Arne
>>
> I was somewhat blindly installing this :-
> 
> https://github.com/lowobservable/oec
> 
> Which says it needs python 3.8. So I naively did :
> 
> "sudo apt-get install python3.8"
> 
> Then as suggested in the instructions I was following I did
> 
> python3.8 -m venv VIRTUALENV
> 
> which says it needs "python3.pip" so I did
> 
> "sudo apt-get install python3-pip"
> 
> which trundles away, and the repeat the previous command which fails 
> with the same error...
> .... a bit of googling turned up several folks with the same error and 
> suggestions about updating repository sources when the real answer is to 
> install python3.8-pip. I guess its obvious once you know, but was a pain 
> at the time...
> 

Or you could stop using the Python crap (and the other ego language
du jour) and go back to using real languages to develop real programs.

bill