[coliveira]

It is not a new discovery that Python is terrible for packaging and distribution. Unfortunately, very little has been done about this. The fact that Python is used on particular environments controlled by the developers, mainly machine learning, makes this even more difficult to fix.

[irskep]

It's not really true to say "very little has been done." Thousands of person-hours have been invested into this problem! But the results have been mixed.

At least uv is nice! https://docs.astral.sh/uv/

[Kwpolska]

Time was spent, but on what? Creating 15+ different, competing tools? That won’t improve things. Blessing one tool and adopting something equivalent to node_modules could, but the core team is not interested in improving things this way.