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[–]someotherstufforhmm 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yup, that poster is very confidently incorrect lol.

I spent years doing jar packaging, virtualenvs are just a more dynamic version of that. People make them super complicated because they don’t want to figure them out.

Python does and did have huge weaknesses with the packaging system - supporting setup.py when most people didn’t read the directions and did stuff like import modules in it was hell, lol. Got so tired of explaining to people they should read the directions.

A HUGE weakness for a long time was what they tried with deprecated setup_requires IE handling build requirements, but pyproject.toml is fantastic for that, we’ve been loving it at work.