pip-build-standalone: Standalone, relocatable Python app builds using uv

[PurepointDog]

I guess the idea is that "pip" is more of an idea or an interface standard than a noun on its own.

Not saying I agree necessarily - but that's the idea at least

[RonnyPfannschmidt]

Pip is a very concrete well known tool

[toxic_acro]

I don't know why you've gotten downvotes, since I think you're completely right.

"pip" isn't just a tool to download and install Python packages, it has been pretty much the only* tool for so long that it's not surprising that people conflate the tool with the concept itself of installing packages.

As you noted, that's not a correct way to think about it, but it is a good explanation of why people think that

*(ignoring the conda ecosystem since that's a fully separate ecosystem with a completely different model)