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pip will install dependencies transitively. Some of those dependencies or some version of those might be uninstallable on certain platforms and you won't even know!

Further, if I am building using Python 3.11 features and you are stuck on Python 3.10 then you cannot install my Python CLI tool.

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Well if some dependencies are uninstall able on certain platforms another packaging technique won’t magically solve that!

I too would like it for things to just magically be good (I think pyinstaller seems kinda close but I dislike how it works based on scanning your code. PyOxidizer is another), but was just mentioning that pip is an alright distribution tool for a part of the population (one that uses Python)

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