Yes, it should have been something like a flatpak, snap, Appimage or some other horrible thing. But I can see why a developer would just want to set a few vars, because you need to do that in a shell anyway to pip install some other requirement or debug on the command line. There is no polish, no user story.
From the perspective of a user who just wants to install and use something, it doesn't matter why python is atrocious, it just is. Ideally, something like pipx would be far far better than it is, and bundled by default with the system python. Every venv should get added to a launcher that gives access to a shell, an IDE or any python program in the venv. In fact if the python venv module was just a teensy bit better it could (optionally, but by default) do this for you.
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Yes, it should have been something like a flatpak, snap, Appimage or some other horrible thing. But I can see why a developer would just want to set a few vars, because you need to do that in a shell anyway to pip install some other requirement or debug on the command line. There is no polish, no user story.
From the perspective of a user who just wants to install and use something, it doesn't matter why python is atrocious, it just is. Ideally, something like pipx would be far far better than it is, and bundled by default with the system python. Every venv should get added to a launcher that gives access to a shell, an IDE or any python program in the venv. In fact if the python venv module was just a teensy bit better it could (optionally, but by default) do this for you.