On Jun 8, 2016, at 7:02 AM, Thomas Güttler <guettliml@thomas-guettler.de> wrote:
I would love to see a package management that is easy to use and which focuses on simple data structures.
Also not python-dev's problem - that one falls on distutils-sig, PyPA and the PSF (but unfortunately is never going to be entirely simple given Python's broad scope of use).
This statement make me sad. Why is this not python-dev's problem?
Historically python-dev hasn’t been involved much in it and almost all of the tooling for packaging is developed externally to Python itself. This is generally a strength, since packaging tools tend to work best when they’re not lied to the lifetime of the language itself. In the abstract, it *could* be python-dev’s problem, but Python as a community didn’t choose that solution, it chose to delegate that task outside of it and I (though I am biased) don’t think that trying to move it into the python-dev domain brings much in the way of benefits. — Donald Stufft