Maybe this doesn’t happen in Python, but I find that hard to believe. This is a common thing in Rust, where cargo does support compiling with multiple versions of the same crate. If I have dependency X that depends on version 1.x of crate Z, and dependency Y which depends on version 2.x, cargo will compile BOTH versions of crate Y, and handle the magic of linking dependencies X and Y to their own, different copies of this common dependency.
Yes, Rust can do this. I know Ruby cannot, and I believe Python may not either, but I am less sure about it because I’m less good with Python’s semantics here, but I’d believe your parent.
