[underyx]

I was trying to update my all-in-one duct tape Docker image[0] yesterday and was surprised to see that they ramped up the complexity so much for this release, I had to install a new C library just to be able to compile a dependency of a dependency they added.[1]

[0]: https://github.com/underyx/url

[1]: https://github.com/underyx/url#5-2019-05-31

[omni]

C extensions are a pretty common thing in the Python ecosystem, you're making this sound a lot more drastic than it is

[underyx]

They are, but not for an API wrapper.