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I can't answer your initial question, but I do like to pile onto the package management points.

Package consumption sucks so bad, since the sensible way of using are virtual envs where you copy all dependencies. Then for freezing venvs or dumping package versions, so you can port your project to a different system, doesn't consider only packages actually used/imported in code, but it just dumps everything in the venv. The fact you need external tools for this is frustrating.

Then there is package creation. Legacy vs modern approach, cryptic __init__ files, multiple packaging backends, endless sections in pyproject.toml, manually specifying dependencies and dev-dependencies, convoluted ways of getting package metadata actually in code without having it in two places (such as CLI programs with --version).

Cross compilation really would be a nice feature to simply distribute a single file executable. I haven' tested it, but a Linux system with Wine should in theory be capable of "cross" compiling between Linux and Windows.

Still, like you, as a beginning I would prefer a sensible package management and package creation process.