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Re: If this project is dead, just tell us

#11
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Why would someone choose to use a third party library when the first party solution[0] is more than adequate in the first place? [0] https://docs.python.org/3/library/venv.html

pipenv does more than just create a venv, although it is my favorite tool for that. The most important thing it does is freeze the dependency tree using Pipfile.lock

Re: If this project is dead, just tell us

#13
post #3

Why would someone choose to use a third party library when the first party solution[0] is more than adequate in the first place? [0] https://docs.python.org/3/library/venv.html

1. Because pipenv is easier to use.

2. Because it's not at all clear that pipenv is a third party library. It's made by the same group that makes pip, so it's confusing that pip would be considered a de-facto standard but not pipenv when it's made by the same group, and under the same project in Github.

Re: If this project is dead, just tell us

#14
post #9

This is all MIT licensed, if people care so much, why has nobody forked this? Why are people talking about jumping ship to a completely different project instead of forking and cutting a new release from there?

There's 1400 forks. I'm sure that people will move to one of them if the original is pronounced dead.

Re: If this project is dead, just tell us

#19
post #3

Why would someone choose to use a third party library when the first party solution[0] is more than adequate in the first place? [0] https://docs.python.org/3/library/venv.html

pipenv does more than just create a venv, although it is my favorite tool for that. The most important thing it does is freeze the dependency tree using Pipfile.lock

> it does is freeze the dependency tree using Pipfile.lock

sorry but what does freezing the dependency tree mean?

Re: If this project is dead, just tell us

#20
If there are no commits, maybe that means it is finished, stable, reliable?

I would like more projects to be without commits and just work.

I don't understand why there must always be new commits if everything already works.

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