I felt the same way about only needing requirements.txt until I managed a project that needed to be compatible across many versions of python and some of it's d

I felt the same way about only needing requirements.txt until I managed a project that needed to be compatible across many versions of python and some of it's dependencies were renamed from one version to another. I highly recommend you take a look at the hypermodern python guide https://cjolowicz.github.io/posts/hypermodern-python-01-setup/ https://cjolowicz.github.io/posts/hypermodern-python-01-setu...