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leontrolskilast Thursday at 9:19 PM1 replyview on HN

Some discussion on (ab?)using pypi to distribute binaries - https://discuss.python.org/t/use-of-pypi-as-a-generic-storag...


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lucideertoday at 12:40 PM

Wherever you fall on that debate (I have my opinions but they are not strongly held), a bigger red flag here for me is the `pip install ...` opener. The fact they later have a `uvx ...` example in the docs just makes defaulting to pip even worse.

As that comment mentions:

> 5 years ago [...] Python packaging was a big mess.

> Today [...] I think Python's packaging story has never been stronger.

Poetry, & later Uv, are essential & invaluable milestones in that revolutionary story; Pip is terrible software & should be left in the past.

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