On Mar 18, 2024, at 6:01 PM, Farley, Peter <0000031df298a9da-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
The really tricky part of letting programmers use Python is how do they get the necessary non-standard libraries for themselves? I suspect most large shops will, in the name of “security”, prevent open access to the PyPi library repository, and no doubt highly control it in a bureaucratic snarl, with the actual breadth of available packages highly restricted to only those libraries that are “approved for use” in a locally maintained private repository. Sad to say, I can see the bureaucratic delays to get access to a library piling up already. We’ve licensed a package manager (Artifactory in our case, but I imagine there are others) and have configured pip so that it looks there instead of PyPI. This is mostly so we can manage local packages that we’ve developed just for use at the University, and it’s actually set up to proxy PyPI for packages it doesn’t have already, but I believe it could be used to only allow curated packages, which might help with the bureaucrats. -- Curtis Pew ITS Campus Solutions curtis....@austin.utexas.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
