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Re:Thoughts on the Python Packaging Ecosystem by numbsafari on Sunday January 22, 2023 @04:05AM (#34475637)
Any multi step process is guaranteed to produce random assortments of workflow tools to manage those steps which will seek to replace the original process as the one true process.

If there two steps, one part of the community will insist they belong in: a makefile, bash script, python script, lambda network service, bazel, pants, scons, terraform, ansible, npm …

Re:Thoughts on the Python Packaging Ecosystem by bombolo on Sunday January 22, 2023 @09:07AM (#34477518)
So we should have 1 single shell command to do literally everything?
Re:Thoughts on the Python Packaging Ecosystem by 411111111111111 on Sunday January 22, 2023 @09:26AM (#34477659)
before poetry and pipenv was a thing, pretty much everyone was recommending the virtualenvwrapper script instead of using venv directly... so yes, thats what it ultimetaly always ends up as.
Re:Thoughts on the Python Packaging Ecosystem by bombolo on Sunday January 22, 2023 @11:17AM (#34478848)
One might invest 20 seconds to learn how to use it, but to each their own :)
Re:Thoughts on the Python Packaging Ecosystem by numbsafari on Sunday January 22, 2023 @10:11AM (#34478083)
Not what I would or wouldn’t do personally, but what happens generally in practice.