I do a lot of work in Python now, which is great. But the one thing that I really really really miss from Java is better dependency management and packaging. I

I do a lot of work in Python now, which is great. But the one thing that I really really really miss from Java is better dependency management and packaging. I wish I could just create a .war file for my Python project and copy it to a deploy directory on a server to get it going. Using a virtualenv and pip or easy_install works ok but a simple maven config to define my project and it's dependencies is still lightyears ahead of the mess we have in Python now. It is really difficult to beat: 'mvn package && scp target/my-app-1.0.war server:~/deploy/' I hope Python will get there.