Python: Please stop screwing over Linux distros

· Drew DeVault · Nov. 16, 2021, 9:47 a.m.
Summary
Linux distributions? Oh, those things we use to bootstrap our Docker containers? Yeah, those are annoying. What were you complaining about again? The Python community is obsessed with reinventing the wheel, over and over and over and over and over and over again. distutils, setuptools, pip, pipenv, tox, flit, conda, poetry, virtualenv, requirements.txt, setup.py, setup.cfg, pyproject.toml… I honestly can’t even list all of the things you have to deal with. It’s a disaster. This comic is almos...
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