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what does pip do to not suck? (programming.dev)
submitted 8 hours ago by irelephant@programming.dev to c/python@programming.dev
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I've been trying to get luarocks to work on windows, and all it gives is cryptic gcc errors.

How does pip manage to work on most platforms without issues?

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[-] Midnitte@beehaw.org 2 points 7 hours ago

I'd love to hear a technical answer, but one thing that's probably part of it is the fact that pip is written in Python and Python runs everywhere without much problem (though uv also seems to work pretty flawlessly too lol)

[-] irelephant@programming.dev 1 points 5 hours ago

Lua runs everywhere (almost), but I cannot install a uuid library on windows.

[-] Kissaki@programming.dev 1 points 2 hours ago

IIRC I've had pip fail like that too. Unable to build a lib it included.

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