# Wanting a singular packaging tool/vision

**URL:** <https://discuss.python.org/t/wanting-a-singular-packaging-tool-vision/21141>\
**Category:** Packaging\
**Created:** [November 16, 2022, 2:50am UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/wanting-a-singular-packaging-tool-vision/21141 "2022-11-16T02:50:23Z")\
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> [@pitrou](#):
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> I’m sure the PyPA has done of ton of nice and useful things, but “some kind of cohesive vision to rally around a central, official, out-of-the-box workflow” doesn’t sound like it.

Agreed, we’ve never achieved this. We’ve tried (multiple times - pipenv, poetry, conda, …) but nothing ever pleased enough people to become “the definitive solution”. It’s possible the SC could exert their authority and say “this is the one and only packaging solution”. Would that work? Do they even have that type of authority? I don’t know.

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