For people finding good package manager for Python, conda is the best. (Mamba is even better and is a drop-in replacement of conda that you can even do conda in

For people finding good package manager for Python, conda is the best. (Mamba is even better and is a drop-in replacement of conda that you can even do conda install mamba and use mamba from there.) It doesn’t replace your setup.py or pyproject.toml as a maintainer, though. For that I uses poetry with pyproject.toml. As a maintainer, you need to release to PyPI first and then release it to anaconda or conda-forge (where I prefer the later.) Releasing on conda-forge seems more troublesome at first, and that process makes you trust conda-forge more than PyPI where it virtually has no barrier to entry. As an end user, most packages you can pip install with can be conda/mamba install with. For those which doesn’t exist, you can use pip install inside a conda environment. (Which is like virtualenv.) dependencies already installed via conda won’t be repeated. Conda is designed to be multi platform and multi language as well. Npm, Julia, ffmpeg, etc can be installed via conda. It is designed for scientific stack where there’s a lot of non pure Python dependencies. In this aspect, it is more like a package manager other than the dIstro provided ones, which should be compared to homebrew, Macports, nix, pkg-src, etc.