At first I was excited to see that a new tool would solve the Python "packaging" problem. But upon further reading, I realized that this was about _package management_, not so much about packaging a Python application that I've built.
Personally I haven't had many problems with package management in Python. While the ecosystem has some shortcomings (no namespaces!), pip generally works just fine for me.
What really annoys me about Python, is the fact that I cannot easily wrap my application in an executable and ship it somewhere. More often than not, I see git clones and virtualenv creation being done in production, often requiring more connectivity than needed on the target server, and dev dependencies being present on the OS. All in all, that's a horrible idea from a security viewpoint. Until that problem is fixed, I'll prefer different languages for anything that requires some sort of end user/production deployment.
Personally I haven't had many problems with package management in Python. While the ecosystem has some shortcomings (no namespaces!), pip generally works just fine for me.
What really annoys me about Python, is the fact that I cannot easily wrap my application in an executable and ship it somewhere. More often than not, I see git clones and virtualenv creation being done in production, often requiring more connectivity than needed on the target server, and dev dependencies being present on the OS. All in all, that's a horrible idea from a security viewpoint. Until that problem is fixed, I'll prefer different languages for anything that requires some sort of end user/production deployment.