Top 4 Python multi-platform Projects

glances

101 24,869 9.5 Python

Glances an Eye on your system. A top/htop alternative for GNU/Linux, BSD, Mac OS and Windows operating systems.

Project mention: Homelab Adventures: Crafting a Personal Tech Playground | dev.to | 2024-04-22

Glances

conan

110 7,753 9.8 Python

Conan - The open-source C and C++ package manager

Project mention: The xz attack shell script | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-02

Conan is a package manager for C/C++. See: https://conan.io/.
The way it works is that you can provide "recipes", which are Python scripts, that automate the process of collecting source code (usually from a remote Git repository, or a remote source tarball), patching it, making its dependencies and transitive dependencies available, building for specific platform and architecture (via any number of build systems), then packaging up and serving binaries. There's a lot of complexity involved.
Here are the two recipes I mentioned:
libcurl: https://github.com/conan-io/conan-center-index/blob/master/r...
OpenSSL v3: https://github.com/conan-io/conan-center-index/blob/master/r...
Now, for the sake of this thread I want to highlight three things here:
- Conan recipes are usually made by people unaffiliated with the libraries they're packaging;
- The recipes are fully Turing-complete, do a lot of work, have their own bugs - therefore they should really be treated as software comonents themselves, for the purpose of OSS clearing/supply chain verification, except as far as I know, nobody does it;
- The recipes can, and do, patch source code and build scripts. There's supporting infrastruture for this built into Conan, and of course one can also do it by brute-force search and replace. See e.g. ZLib recipe that does it both at the same time:
https://github.com/conan-io/conan-center-index/blob/7b0ac710... -- `_patch_sources` does both direct search-and-replace in source files, and applies the patches from https://github.com/conan-io/conan-center-index/tree/master/r....
Now, good luck keeping track of what's going on there.

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rez

13 896 8.9 Python

An integrated package configuration, build and deployment system for software

Project mention: Rez package manager alternatives | /r/vfx | 2023-07-07

zeta

1 242 9.8 Python

Build high-performance AI models with modular building blocks (by kyegomez)

Project mention: Zetascale, Build high-performance AI models with modular building blocks | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-09

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