It's very rare, most distros ship Python, and even mac does it. But: - Half of the devs in the world are on Windows. - Installing doit with pip is not trivia

It's very rare, most distros ship Python, and even mac does it. But: - Half of the devs in the world are on Windows. - Installing doit with pip is not trivial. Hence the "Relieving python packaging pain" procedure: https://www.bitecode.dev/p/relieving-your-python-packaging-pain https://www.bitecode.dev/p/relieving-your-python-packaging-p... And most people will never ever encounter this article, so they will hit a missing command, a missing package, a PATH error, a PYHONPATH error, a version error or something like that. They may even try to solve it by copy/pasting many commands from the web, some of them with admin right, and make a mess of their setup. That's why, for end user tools like doit, providing a stand alone executable is still the best solution.