Well there is only one way in the standard lib (distutils). But it is so old and limited that practically nobody wants to use it in its vanilla state. The ongo

Well there is only one way in the standard lib (distutils). But it is so old and limited that practically nobody wants to use it in its vanilla state. The ongoing work to modernise stdlib and to incorporate the best parts of the various alternatives in a compatible way while balancing the sometimes conflicting needs of devs on windows, devs on *nix, sysadmins, distro packagers etc is very complex. It will take a long time to sort out in an evolutionary incremental way. Part of the problem is that the 3rd party tools they are trying to improve/replace were never fully specified or understood. There are a lot of corner cases to find. There is slow progress being made though.