How to improve Python packaging, or why fourteen tools are at least tw
chriswarrick.com
A journey to the world of Python packaging, a visit to the competition, a hopeful look at the future, and highlights from a disappointing discussion.

I stumbled upon this while researching package management options for python, and found it a really interesting read.

I like python as a language but this mess is something that needs to be addressed for me to consider python for future projects. I can’t imagine how confusing it must be for new users.

  • @[email protected]English
    1•10 months ago

    I don’t find that behaviour natural unless there is a hard conflict or I request it. So I guess it’s just a philosophical difference that led me to having a bad tint with it.

    • @[email protected]English
      3•10 months ago

      If you use poetry add it should only update what is necessary, and you can use poetry lock --no-update to lock without updating everything.