Packaging

Announcements Announcements about projects. This is releases for “major” projects (mainly pip releases and PyPI feature deployments), as well as one-off announcements for new projects/tools. Standards Standards discussions, ala PEPs as well as some proposals/grand ideas for changes to how things are done. User Feedback User feedback about the packaging tooling such as information from a UX review, user surveys, and feedback about specific user workflows. Coordination Coordination discussions. This is mechanical stuff that involves co-ordinating multi-project effort, or stuff like the governance story about how we do those things.

Topic	Replies	Views	Activity
About the Packaging category Packaging	5	6970	March 11, 2019
Pre-PEP: Add ability to install a package with reproducible dependencies Packaging	38	856	November 4, 2025
PEP 807: Index support for Trusted Publishing Standards	10	385	November 4, 2025
PEP 804: An external dependency registry and name mapping mechanism Standards	39	1240	November 4, 2025
PEP 725: Specifying external dependencies in pyproject.toml (round 2) Standards	69	1718	November 2, 2025
Document that macOS platform tags use minor version 0 for macOS 11+ Packaging	3	143	October 29, 2025
Is/was there a goal with PEP 566's JSON encoding section? Packaging	7	814	October 28, 2025
Linux distro patches to `sysconfig` are changing `pip install --prefix` outside virtual environments Packaging	36	2915	October 26, 2025
Announcement: pip 25.3 release! Announcements release	4	1115	October 26, 2025
Expressing project vs. distribution licenses post-PEP 639 Standards	211	2086	October 24, 2025
Cross-platform way to inspect Python installation Packaging	5	165	October 23, 2025
PEP 772: Packaging Council governance process (Round 3) Coordination	85	2351	October 22, 2025
PEP 771: Default Extras for Python Software Packages (Round 2) Standards	105	2368	October 22, 2025
Emscripten tag in wheels (`emscripten_4_0_9`) Packaging	2	189	October 20, 2025
PEP 780: ABI features as environment markers Standards	48	1534	October 20, 2025
Announcement: pychub is released, along with hatch, poetry, and pdm plugins! Packaging	10	642	October 18, 2025
Are setuptools abandoned? User Feedback setuptools	8	545	October 17, 2025
Idea: Specify python version constraints on optional dependencies in a pyproject.toml Packaging packaging-help	12	244	October 12, 2025
An empty cheese shop Packaging	3	313	October 10, 2025
Block download of components when violating policy Packaging	10	425	October 9, 2025
PEP 794: Import name metadata Standards	88	3311	October 7, 2025
pre-PEP: User-Agent schema for HTTP requests against remote package indices Standards	17	453	October 6, 2025
PyPI downloads statistics and continuous integration Packaging	17	685	October 6, 2025
Finding a maintainer for a mature package: lru-dict Packaging	8	354	October 3, 2025
WheelNext & Wheel Variants: An update, and a request for feedback! Packaging	224	3359	October 3, 2025
Requires-Python upper limits Coordination	122	16571	October 2, 2025
Idea: Introduce/standardize project development scripts Standards	87	2689	October 2, 2025
Packaging binaries into the venv /bin folder - Do any build backends support this? Packaging	11	295	October 2, 2025
PEP 777: How to Re-invent the Wheel Standards	256	4461	October 2, 2025
PEP 763: Limiting deletions on PyPI Packaging pep	41	1122	September 29, 2025