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Python and the Software Dependency Issues
Python is a glue language. Of course, gets a bunch of cruft glued into it. And now we have a much harder problem to solve because we do speak to so many different things. Python packaging has been treated as a second class concern by the BDFL. Guido clearly admitted very early on, he just didn't think about it that much and didn't really, it wasn't a big problem for him. It was someone else's problem to go and figure out whether it was the Philip Ebe with step tools or the disutil days.