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Re:What the Heck Is Pyproject.toml? by earthboundkid on Thursday April 02, 2020 @09:12AM (#22758515)
Your comment was too long for me to read without my eyes glazing over. Maybe it's because I already know this stuff, but I suspect for someone who doesn't know it and just wants to program, it would be intimidating.
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Re:What the Heck Is Pyproject.toml? by BiteCode_dev on Thursday April 02, 2020 @09:37AM (#22758784)
This is not the instructions to install Python.

Those are the instructions to teach anybody in any OS with any configuration to install python and deal with 3rd party dependencies.

E.G: if you are a Windows 10 user, instructions are 2 lines:

- install from the store

- run "py -X.Z" to start python

That's it.

The difficulty is to have general instructions for all cases, including packaging. Which is a problem with every scripting languages.

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