It's not great, but also it isn't terrible, the problem with Python packaging is that there were many ways to do it and people are confused. What's worse, there

It's not great, but also it isn't terrible, the problem with Python packaging is that there were many ways to do it and people are confused. What's worse, there are tons of articles (in including from PyPA) that are providing bad information. If you use setuptools and place all your configuration declaratively in setup.cfg it is not that bad.