Package Managers

Environment & Package Management

Towards Data Science

A good handle on Package and Environment management ensures that we continue to avail the benefits of the latest package functionalities while ensuring that projects running on older package releases…...

What’s a Package Manager in Angular and How Does it Work?

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Have you ever used a package manager? Do you wonder what’s a package manager, and what are the best options in the frontend world? Do you wonder how it works and how to choose the right package…

Diffify & Posit Package Manager

R-bloggers

The latest release of Posit Package Manager introduces several enhancements, including: Python Git Builders: Build Python packages (wheels) directly from Git. Blocklists: Easily block specific package...

Challenges in Package Management

R-bloggers

Photo courtesy of Pexels Installing software packages from public repositories like CRAN or PyPI is easy until it isn’t. New developers and veterans reading this are likely familiar with the frustrati...

Packages

Learn Java

Understanding Packages To make types easier to find and use, to avoid naming conflicts, and to control access, programmers bundle groups of related types into packages. Definition: A package is a gro...

Explained from Zero: From Pip to Uv, Package Managers

Python in Plain English

What are Dependencies? What does a Package Manager Do? A python project normally uses packages, such as FastAPI , which in turn may require other packages to work, such as pydantic in the case of Fast...

The Beginners’ Guide to Julia’s Package Manager — Pkg

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Pkg is Julia’s built-in package and environment manager. You can treat Pkg as Python’s equivalent of Pip & Conda (we use Pip as a package manager and Conda as both package & environment manager in…

Posit Package Manager for Linux R Binaries

R-bloggers

I’ve been getting a lot of use recently from the Posit (née RStudio) Package Manager (PPM), because it offers freely available R package binaries for quite a few Linux distributions—including common o...

vcpkg: C++ Package Manager for Machine Learning

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Vcpkg is a great package manager for C++ provided by Microsoft. It greatly simplifies the acquisition and installation of third-party libraries on Windows, Linux, and macOS. To start using it with…

Environment Variables and Package Management using Anaconda

Level Up Coding

Today’s read is on Python’s Package Management System and Virtual Environment. Sit back, hold your cup of coffee, and keep that pack of snacks 5 meters apart, because this is going to be short and…

— Package extension utility

The Python Standard Library

pkgutil — Package extension utility Source code: Lib/pkgutil.py This module provides utilities for the import system, in particular package support. class pkgutil. ModuleInfo ( module_finder , name ,...

Writing Your Own Python Package Manager From Scratch

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When I first thought about writing my own package manager in Python, I asked myself: Why? We already have pip , conda , poetry , and others that work just fine. But digging deeper, I realized that bui...