Filipe Pires Alvarenga Fernandes Community powered packaging conda forge PyCon 2017

"Speaker: Filipe Pires Alvarenga Fernandes
The Python scientific community always wanted a package manager that is cross platform,
does not require `sudo`,
and lets Python be awesome!
The conda package manager solved that problem, but created a new ones...
This talk is a tour disguised as a beginner tutorial to `conda-forge` packaging.
We will try to discuss some myths and misconceptions about `conda` and `conda-forge`,
as well as a quick comparison with `pip` and `wheels`.
Slides can be found at: speakerdeck.com/pycon2017 and github.com/PyCon/2017-slides"

[@asmeurer]

To answer the last question, conda has its own libcurl package, which is used on every Linux distribution, so there is no need to worry about different versions coming from different distributions. It wasn't highlighted much in this talk, but another key advantage of conda over pip/wheels is that packages do not have to be Python packages, so conda-forge can build packages for things like libcurl to keep them uniform across distributions.