[Distutils] The future of invoking pip

[Nick Coghlan]

On 11 November 2015 at 15:08, Wayne Werner <waynejwerner at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> With all of the weirdness involved, it makes me wonder - could there be a
> better way? If we waved our hands and were able to magically make Python
> package management perfect, what would that look like?
>
> Would that kind of discussion even be valuable?

That's essentially what PEP 426 evolved into - an all-singing
all-dancing wish list of what *my* dream packaging system would enable
(especially once you include the "Deferred Features" section). In
practice, most of that is "nice to have" rather than "absolutely
essential" though, so we're in the midst of the process:

1. Figuring out incremental steps that help us to get from "here" to
"there" by way of formalising what already exists
2. Figuring out which parts of "there" represent needless complexity
that can just be dropped entirely

Packaging systems are a uniquely difficult ship to steer (even moreso
than programming language design), since interoperability is king, and
you need to cope with legacy versions of both packaging tools *and*
language runtimes.

Regards,
Nick.

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