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How to politely point out that somebody's #PEP517 build system is utter #NIH? Here's one whey… err, way:
https://github.com/repo-helper/whey/issues/52
And yes, it's complete NIH, with a dependency on ConsoleKit (seriously?!), a bunch of NIH packages, and a stale bot. On top of that, it's practically used only by its author.
So why do I care? Because the same person also made hatch-requirements-txt #Hatchling plugin, and said plugin depends on NIH packages (of course it does) using whey. So yeah, another case of making one potentially useful package (actually, I don't consider it useful, but random projects depend on it now) and using it to force your NIH projects on everyone.
#Gentoo #Python
https://github.com/repo-helper/whey/issues/52
And yes, it's complete NIH, with a dependency on ConsoleKit (seriously?!), a bunch of NIH packages, and a stale bot. On top of that, it's practically used only by its author.
So why do I care? Because the same person also made hatch-requirements-txt #Hatchling plugin, and said plugin depends on NIH packages (of course it does) using whey. So yeah, another case of making one potentially useful package (actually, I don't consider it useful, but random projects depend on it now) and using it to force your NIH projects on everyone.
#Gentoo #Python