On: Ask HN: Why are JavaScript dependencies so messy?

[plonk]

> Compare that to Python, which still doesn't have a declarative package manifest format

It does, with pyproject.toml [1]. It even had two [2], but setup.cfg is deprecated because it was specific to setuptools.

[1] https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest/userguide/pyproject_con...

[2] https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest/userguide/declarative_c...