Python needs its CRAN

How is it that in the year 2025 of our Lord installing a Python package is still such a gamble? This post comes from someone that rarely uses Python, but consider the following: the rare times I need to use it, I’m often confronted to dependency hell (and if you think it’s a skill issue, hold that thought and keep reading); I’m one of the maintainers of the R ecosystem for Nix, but also package…