Python Has Too Many Package Managers

1. poetry-plugin-freeze

   1 2 29 5.4 Python

   poetry plugin to freeze dependency versions in wheels

   

   fwiw, we built an oss plugin for #3 to automate for poetry also supports mono repos.

   https://github.com/cloud-custodian/poetry-plugin-freeze

2. InfluxDB

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3. rye

   2 47 14,227 7.8 Rust

   a Hassle-Free Python Experience

   

   On Rye: "This project was ultimately abandoned by its author in 2023 and given to Astral.sh in favor of supporting uv instead"

   I don't think that's quite the right way to frame this. Handing Rye over to a company that could maintain it full time isn't the same thing as "abandoning" it - and the new maintainers are very active on that project: https://github.com/astral-sh/rye/commits/main/

4. devenv

   3 103 5,247 9.9 Nix

   Fast, Declarative, Reproducible, and Composable Developer Environments using Nix

   

   If you haven't yet, check out https://devenv.sh. It's pretty nice for python packages and installs your requirements to a project local venv for you via whatever tool you want (pip, poetry, uv etc).

   I've been using it for a couple of years and it's super nice to be able to manage both python and "native" dependencies, and other non-python development tools all together.

   I used just nix and whatever python packages are already in nixpkgs for several projects. And that works really really well until you run into an issue with compatibility like I did. It seems to mostly happen when some extremely common tool like `awscli2` depends on a specific version of some package and so it's pinned.

5. python-build-standalone

   4 18 3,089 9.2 Python

   Produce redistributable builds of Python

   

   It is young, and it does use established tools under the hood, but I think you should take another look:

   - It manages the portable python version downloads depending on what you've pinned in your pyproject or the standard version: https://github.com/indygreg/python-build-standalone

   - It uses Hatch, uv (or piptools), venv etc.

   - It has a sane set of commands and should work even if they swap out some of the underlying tools.

   - Its fast and have a great coverage of PEPs.

   I've used it now for a few versions and I think its the best meta-packaging/python management tool out there. I

6. Synapse

   5 371 11,720 9.8 Python

   Discontinued Synapse: Matrix homeserver written in Python/Twisted.

   

   when we did a comparison of package managers that lock dependencies, we wrote up some interesting notes at https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11537#issuecomm...

   Notable omission in pip-tools which many are suggesting here as being simpler: it can't write requirements files for multiple environments/platforms without running it once for each of those environments and having one file for all of them.

   We settled on Poetry at the time but it has been quite unstable overall. Not so bad recently but there were a lot of issues/regressions with it over time.

   For this reason I am happy to see new takes on package management, hopefully some of these will have clearer wins over the others, where you have to spend ages trying to figure out which one will do what you need.

7. SaaSHub

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