the immediate blocker when trying to run this Python project is that a native package deep within its dependency graph won’t compile without gcc-12 even though gcc 15 was released in August last year
that’s not even targeting gcc 14 which was released in 2024
and to hardcode this expectation without a Dockerfile or some Python-native mechanism to pull in a specific version of a C/Cxx compiler …
🐍 🤡
some programs that require intensive computation would have compiled code for performance reason. scipy and numpy comes to mind. i also remember needing to compile stuff during a pip install for postgresql integration library.