[coliveira]

Agreed. Python is one of the worst languages in the sense of packaging and distributing code. It is incredible how bad they manage to make the whole process. And it is not for lack of effort, they have attempted several things, but the end result is complete confusion. Every year they come with a new way to solve the packaging problem, but in the end the result is just more complexity.

[KptMarchewa]

It won't ever be fixed until Python C API remains in it's current form. The problem aren't pure python extension, but you can't do anything sane once part of your application is not Python.

[jessaustin]

I'm sure this is part of the issue, but packaging even pure python modules is harder and more confusing than necessary. I've been saying this at least since I left for the relatively greener pastures of Node nearly a decade ago. Python fans have always had plenty of advice ready to contradict my impressions, but their advice has changed a great deal over the years. That whole time, "npm publish" has just worked, when it's even necessary at all. Node just works better.