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10 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 0 stories, 10 comments · first 2016-03-21 · latest 2026-08-31
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…* Since that blog post I made typical version parse three times faster on top of that: https://github.com/pypa/packaging/pull/1082 * Also since that blog post version filtering has gone through multiple optimizations and in some cases will…
comment by notatallshaw · 2026-08-31 · in uv: Deduplicate all files in the wheel cache -
…example, here's one that pypa broke for my package a couple of years ago in pip, and never fixed: https://github.com/pypa/packaging/issues/774
comment by mixmastamyk · 2026-01-13 · in Anthropic invests $1.5M in the Python Software Foundation -
…a special case) — Show HN within the next day or two, fingers crossed — and setting up a fork of https://github.com/pypa/packaging to support EOL Python (back to 3.6) and make some general simplifications (because even this is a fairly…
comment by zahlman · 2025-12-14 · in Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025) -
…already takes care of that AFAICT). Although the rough ecosystem equivalent of Gem::Version ( https://github.com/pypa/packaging/blob/main/src/packaging/ve... ) does much more sophisticated parsing. And you could also get the comparison…
comment by zahlman · 2025-11-08 · in Ruby already solved my problem -
Oh really? - https://github.com/pypa/packaging/issues/774 - https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/3548 - https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/7953 I relied on those for a decade, maybe two. > something no one asked for Was being a…
comment by mixmastamyk · 2025-08-14 · in PYX: The next step in Python packaging -
…Rather, pip was broken intentionally two years ago and they are still not interested in fixing it: https://github.com/pypa/packaging/issues/774 I tried uv and it just worked.
comment by mixmastamyk · 2025-06-23 · in uv: An extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust -
…for the code that understands the "tags" in wheel filenames and factor it out into `packaging` ( https://github.com/pypa/packaging/pull/156 ).
comment by zahlman · 2025-01-21 · in Ruff: Python linter and code formatter written in Rust -
> You can't use wheels musl wheel support was added some time ago: https://github.com/pypa/packaging/releases/tag/21.0 No idea how many packages actually build musl wheels though. From a quick glance at least cryptography and lxml has musl…
comment by scandinavian · 2021-11-24 · in Alpine Linux 3.15 -
…If you mean binary wheels, PyPA packaging added support for Alpine wheels a few months ago ( https://github.com/pypa/packaging/pull/411 ), and auditwheel support for the same just shipped today.
comment by int_19h · 2021-09-19 · in Alpine Linux: Proposal to move Rust to main -
…There is an ongoing effort to extract all its logic into separated packages [1], thought. [1] https://github.com/pypa/packaging
comment by pietroalbini · 2016-03-21 · in Show HN: Python requirements for Humans