“I built various iterations of this over the last three years out of personal interest, but I was cautious about publishing anything out of fear of adding yet another tool into the mix. Right now I’m reaching out to other people in the packaging ecosystem to see if there is a way to work together towards something, and I’m trying to get a better public description out of how I wish packaging in the Python ecosystem could work to align people on a vision.

“Ronacher is well-aware that efforts to simplify Python’s packaging story are not necessarily helped by the addition of yet another in a long line of tools and acknowledges his reluctance to foist software developed for personal use onto the wider community. In a GitHub Issues post he asks whether Rye should exist?

“I really have no desire to contribute more to the proliferation of Python packaging,” he wrote. “Today the [Python Packaging Authority] on Github is what appears to be dozens of competing, largely independent efforts. In addition to that there is Conda. There are now even companies appearing that are putting layers around Conda as well. It’s a pretty big mess.

“I just want it solved, and I want to never have to think about Python packaging and project management ever again.”

Some more context can be found in this article on The Register.