I myself sometimes would like to skirt the system, and have to admit that (especially with oracle) have done so.
All seems to go well until it doesn't.
I got bit more than once, and always managed to pull myself out of situations that arose
(nothing can ever go wrong go wrong go wrong)
What about updates? and dependencies?
Seems to me there are just too many corner cases that you have to be aware of,
that might cause problems.
some packages haven't been put together properly and don't readily install with pip.
That's a problem of the package, and not pip.
These packages are even more difficult to install without.
I am not trying to be disrespectful. Only devil's advocate. And having managed a staff of
several hundred programmers know the value of standard tools.
All seems to go well until it doesn't.
I got bit more than once, and always managed to pull myself out of situations that arose
(nothing can ever go wrong go wrong go wrong)
What about updates? and dependencies?
Seems to me there are just too many corner cases that you have to be aware of,
that might cause problems.
some packages haven't been put together properly and don't readily install with pip.
That's a problem of the package, and not pip.
These packages are even more difficult to install without.
I am not trying to be disrespectful. Only devil's advocate. And having managed a staff of
several hundred programmers know the value of standard tools.