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I agree with Guido that the thing I hate the most in Python is packaging in general. I find Ruby's gems, bundler and Gemfile.lock to be a much more elegant solu

I agree with Guido that the thing I hate the most in Python is packaging in general. I find Ruby's gems, bundler and Gemfile.lock to be a much more elegant solution. On the other hand, I really like the explicit imports (when used properly). Less magic that makes code navigation way easier.

davexunit 11y ago
As a distro packager, I find Python's packages to be much better and easier to integrate than Ruby gems. I've had no shortage of troubles with Ruby gems: requiring on the git binary to build the gem (even in a release tarball), test suites not being included in the gem releases on rubygems.org, rampant circular dependencies, etc. Python's PyPI has caused me no such issues.