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15 mentions on Hacker News by 13 people: 1 story, 14 comments · first 2016-11-22 · latest 2025-01-19

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  1. …2021, but if they were it was naive. They gave up on maintaining the Pipfile spec in early 2022 ( https://github.com/pypa/pipfile ) and most of the ideas were subsumed by pyproject.toml anyway. Lock files turned out to be a much harder…
    comment by zahlman · 2025-01-19 · in The state of Python packaging in 2021
  2. …about pipfiles. Like their name implies (/s) they are not for pip but pipenv, a separate tool. https://github.com/pypa/pipfile "This format is still under active design and development", last commit "2 years ago". I think this is dead.
  3. …to produce reproducible/secure builds, see the original Pipfile design discussion for gory details: https://github.com/pypa/pipfile
    comment by theptip · 2018-10-18 · in Python's New Package Landscape
  4. …I could add another source. So they're reasonably obvious if you see them in an existing file. [1]: https://github.com/pypa/pipfile#pipfile
    comment by ben509 · 2018-07-13 · in Toml: Tom's Obvious, Minimal Language
  5. …https://packaging.python.org/tutorials/managing-dependencies... https://github.com/pypa/pipenv https://github.com/pypa/pipfile
  6. …a reference implementation in Python and JS, there is no way widespread editor support can happen. https://github.com/pypa/pipfile/issues/88 https://github.com/pypa/pipenv/issues/985 https://github.com/DamnWidget/anaconda/issues/717…
  7. …support is a bit odd I hope they go with Pipfile/Pipfile.lock [0] and pipenv [1] rigth away! [0] https://github.com/pypa/pipfile [1] https://github.com/kennethreitz/pipenv
    comment by Rotareti · 2017-11-17 · in Security alerts on GitHub
  8. …be legitimately decided. I'm just wondering how this is conceptually different from Pipfiles: https://github.com/pypa/pipfile (Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13011932 )
    comment by shaded-enmity · 2017-09-13 · in Packaging Python software with pbr
  9. Check out https://github.com/pypa/pipfile for more info. The format is TOML. It is mainly intended for deployments (e.g. web applications)
    comment by kenneth_reitz · 2017-01-23 · in Announcing Pipenv
  10. See also: https://github.com/pypa/pipfile I'm glad to see Python getting the same attention as other modern package managers. This is all great work!
    comment by command_tab · 2017-01-23 · in Announcing Pipenv
  11. In some ways. It's also got the features of https://github.com/pypa/pipfile
    comment by steveklabnik · 2016-12-23 · in Show HN: Rocket – Web Framework for Rust
  12. …on that issue [2], both Rust and Ruby have a similar split in how they specify dependencies. [0] https://github.com/pypa/pipfile/issues/27 [1] https://github.com/pypa/pipfile/issues/27#issuecomment-26228... [2]…
    comment by nchammas · 2016-11-22 · in Pipfile for Python
  13. …replacement for setup.py has already been agreed on in PEP 518 [1]. It's called pyproject.toml. [0] https://github.com/pypa/pipfile/issues/10 [1] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0518/
    comment by nchammas · 2016-11-22 · in Pipfile for Python
  14. …though I am not involved in the project. The actual authors offer the best list of benefits: https://github.com/pypa/pipfile#the-concept They also point out this will eventually be built into pip, so it will have the benefits of all the…
    comment by examancer · 2016-11-22 · in Pipfile for Python
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    story by shakna · 2016-11-22 · 179 comments