Python packaging must be getting better - a datapoint

Python packaging must be getting better - a datapoint

Luke Plant reports on a recent project he developed on Linux using a requirements.txt file and some complex binary dependencies - Qt5 and VTK - and when he tried to run it on Windows... it worked! No modifications required.

I think Python's packaging system has never been more effective... provided you know how to use it. The learning curve is still too high, which I think accounts for the bulk of …

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