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As we have seen in earlier articles, the packaging landscape for Python is
fragmented and complex, though users of the language have been clamoring
for some kind of
unification for a decade or more at this point. The developers behind
pip and other packaging tools would like to find a way to satisfy
this wish from
Python-language users and developers, thus they have been discussing possible
solutions with increasing urgency, it seems, of late. In order to do that,
though, it is important to understand what specific items—and types of Python
users—to target.