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Installing Python only applications is trivial. What you're complaining about is all the missing code in other languages which isn't controlled by Python and depends on the OS to provide.

This is why we created Linux distributions in the first place. It is not the place of every language to reinvent the wheel - poorly.




Isn’t wheel one of pythons many packaging schemes (intended to replace eggs?)?

> There should be one– and preferably only one –obvious way to do it.

Oh no…


There are only two: wheel, which includes binaries, and sdist, which is Python-only. Eggs have been deprecated for nearly 10 years now.

> Oh no…

That sentence doesn't mean what you think you means. It is saying that there should be "only one way to do something".


> There should be one– and preferably only one –obvious way to do it.

Does not mean

> There should only ever be one way to do each thing.

But somehow extremely many people read it like that.




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