It doesn't matter how long you play the open source game, the first bug report from a downstream redistributor for a new project is a somewhat surreal experience. For all its many challenges, the development of free and open source software is an utterly astonishing feat of global collaboration. #python #venvstacks #conda #foss

Machine learning and AI libraries for Python are big. Really big. Nobody wants to download and install multiple copies of PyTorch or CUDA if they can reasonably avoid it.

#venvstacks allows you to package Python applications and all their dependencies into a portable, deterministic format, without needing to include copies of these large Python frameworks in every application archive.

https://pypi.org/project/venvstacks/

#Python #MachineLearning

The Python packaging project I've been working on since May is now public! Layering Python environments to allow sharing of big dependencies between application components: https://lmstudio.ai/blog/venvstacks #venvstacks #python