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It is not a new discovery that Python is terrible for packaging and distribution. Unfortunately, very little has been done about this. The fact that Python is u
by coliveira 2y ago
It is not a new discovery that Python is terrible for packaging and distribution. Unfortunately, very little has been done about this. The fact that Python is used on particular environments controlled by the developers, mainly machine learning, makes this even more difficult to fix.
- irskep 2y agoIt's not really true to say "very little has been done." Thousands of person-hours have been invested into this problem! But the results have been mixed. At least uv is nice! https://docs.astral.sh/uv/ https://docs.astral.sh/uv/
- Kwpolska 2y agoTime was spent, but on what? Creating 15+ different, competing tools? That won’t improve things. Blessing one tool and adopting something equivalent to node_modules could, but the core team is not interested in improving things this way.