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		hobofan on July 18, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Issue: find a new home for repos including Request... > There was a bunch of hubbub around a preemptive promotion of the `pipenv` package to be _the_ package for managing dependencies in python. AFAIK that never happened, and was only marketing from his side, and never an official stance from the PSF (or whoever would be the authoritative source). That's just one the many questionable things that has happened with him in the past.

dwaltrip on July 18, 2019 [–]

I think there was language added to the front of some official python website (one of pypa's I think?) that gave that impression. It was later changed.

Yeah, it's true that the marketing around pypenv was definitely over the top.

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