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Re:The Python Sofware Foundation Receives Wonderfully Welcom... by bertil on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @10:33AM (#38277769)
I suspect smart people could fix the nightmare around dependencies and packaging for less than 3M, and the economic gains would be immeasurable.
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Re:The Python Sofware Foundation Receives Wonderfully Welcom... by robertlagrant on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @11:18AM (#38278376)
Agreed[0].

[0] https://python-poetry.org

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Re:The Python Sofware Foundation Receives Wonderfully Welcom... by wiredfool on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @11:30AM (#38278550)
cmd -f rust. Nope. C. Nope. Headers. Nope. Meson. Nope.

Poetry doesn't handle the hard part of packaging, which is getting compiled dependencies working on approximately 50 different combinations of platform, architecture, version, and so on.

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