To be honest, as more of a casual user of Python I wasn't aware of the situation at all so I found your post very informative! I did always find the setup.py a

To be honest, as more of a casual user of Python I wasn't aware of the situation at all so I found your post very informative! I did always find the setup.py approach misguided for several reasons, so it's more of a casual observation I've done that I thankfully rarely encounter it these days.