Uv and pip do the same thing, uv is just faster.
Hatch has the same role as Poetry or tox: managing environments for you.
Applications should be packaged properly, in a self contained installer for exactly this demographic. It’s not Python’s fault that this isn’t common practice.
Sure, there was some hyperbole. Some people need some specific setuptools plugin or something. Almost nobody.
It’s not a standard, it’s built on standards.
You can also use Poetry (which recently grew standard metadata support) or plain uv venv if you want to do things manually but fast.
It’s fixed, and the python version had nothing to do with it. Just use hatch
No it’s not. E.g. nobody who starts a new project uses setup.py anymore
It doesn’t. read the first words behind the link you posted:
Here is the actual one: https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/tutorials/packaging-projects/