[noir_lord]

One advantage to language specific packages is that IDE's have a uniform target across platforms (PyCharm has pip support for example).

That's a win if you switch around a lot.

[harperlee]

Oh, interesting, I've never looked at it that way!

[noir_lord]

Yup, when they started appearing I didn't like them either but then I realised they have some nice wins as well, who better to package the packages the community produces than the community who wrote them.

    pip freeze > requirements.txt

Has a nice elegance to it as well :).