Pypi.org is running a survey on the state of Python packaging

Re:Pypi.org is running a survey on the state of Python packa... by thrown_22 on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @08:46PM (#32759525)

Installing Python only applications is trivial. What you're complaining about is all the missing code in other languages which isn't controlled by Python and depends on the OS to provide.

This is why we created Linux distributions in the first place. It is not the place of every language to reinvent the wheel - poorly.

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Re:Pypi.org is running a survey on the state of Python packa... by tibbon on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @10:57PM (#32760590)

Isn’t wheel one of pythons many packaging schemes (intended to replace eggs?)?

> There should be one– and preferably only one –obvious way to do it.

Oh no…

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Re:Pypi.org is running a survey on the state of Python packa... by BerislavLopac on Thursday September 08, 2022 @03:34AM (#32762461)

There are only two: wheel, which includes binaries, and sdist, which is Python-only. Eggs have been deprecated for nearly 10 years now.

> Oh no…

That sentence doesn't mean what you think you means. It is saying that there should be "only one way to do something".

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Re:Pypi.org is running a survey on the state of Python packa... by isitmadeofglass on Friday September 09, 2022 @06:42AM (#32777634)

> There should be one– and preferably only one –obvious way to do it.

Does not mean

> There should only ever be one way to do each thing.

But somehow extremely many people read it like that.

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