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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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