You can actually keep it offline (permanently) and their sync is more immediate. iCloud gave me issues when downloading many (large files) and you couldn't really prioritise certain files. That, and a few other smaller things - like a much better web app experience, etc.
I actually still pay for iCloud - but mainly for the Photos storage space.
Dropbox for files. iCloud is somehow not good for low latency file syncs.
Even for photos it’s not excellent. It takes a while for photos on my phone to show up on my macOS Photos app. But I’m less sensitive to photos lagging than actual files lagging.
It might be worth excluding certain directories from Spotlight to prevent it from indexing node_modules etc which tend to be massive but mostly useless from a Spotlight search perspective.
You can't. But is that possible with any programming language specific package manager? How would that even work given that every flavour of OS/distro have their own way of providing gfortran?
You can't. But my g'parent comment in this thread was because my Python module needs the OpenMP library, or compile-time detection that it wasn't there, to skip OpenMP support. The latter is done by an environment variable which my setup.py understands.
Then orf dreamed of a day where you could "describe what system libraries I may need without having to execute setup.py and find out, and express compile time flags."
The link you pointed doesn't appear to handle what we were talking about. By specifying "gfortran", I hoped to highlight that difference.
riff, building on nix, seems an intriguing solution for this.
I've actually moved from direnv to shadowenv[1]. It's more powerful since it's using a Lisp dialect called Shadowlisp that lets you easily do things like append/prepend to $PATH, expand paths and other common actions.
