Pipenv: Promises a Lot, Delivers Little (2020)

Re:Pipenv: Promises a Lot, Delivers Little (2020) by camgunz on Saturday July 16, 2022 @12:27PM (#32119545)

> And finally the user interface is much more modern.

I hear you on the pinning, but "UX" concerns like this drive me batty; I just use shell functions for this:

    venv() {
        . ${VIRTUALENV_FOLDER}/${1}/bin/activate
    }

    gitsu() {
        branch=$(git status | head -n 1 | cut -d ' ' -f 3)
        git push --set-upstream origin ${branch}
    }

    git_add_conflicts() {
        git add $(git status | grep 'both modified:' | cut -d ':' -f2)
    }

It's so much easier to add a little function in your shell than to write a new tool.

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Re:Pipenv: Promises a Lot, Delivers Little (2020) by solarkraft on Saturday July 16, 2022 @07:09PM (#32122788)

But I would prefer something that just works without me having to do that. Chances are it'll also save me work in areas I'm not aware of yet.

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Re:Pipenv: Promises a Lot, Delivers Little (2020) by camgunz on Sunday July 17, 2022 @12:29PM (#32128238)

Oh me too, I love when a tool solves problems I didn't even know I had, until I have them, I look for a solution, and poof Vim (or whatever) has already solved it in a coherent way.

If every tool were like that that would be one kind of world, but we live in one that's more interesting. There's some Mark Twain quite like "the world owes you nothing; it was here first", or maybe the Buddha saying "it's harder to soften the earth than it is to wear sandals". I like to think that sandal-making is a core engineering skill, whether you're a carpenter or a computer engineer.

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