The core team endorses everything, not only pip, but good luck finding an example setup.py with example repositories from any of the documentation pages you find on Google. It’s results 1-3 and is always marked Obsolete.
The communication on what to do is a disaster. Look at non obsolete https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/tutorials/packaging-p... - my dude, their pyproject.toml doesn’t even specify a dependencies section, which is 99% of the value proposition of packaging.
I have been impressed that they're making progress though - wheels solve some problems conda used to solve; so doing ML stuff that is based on conda I can usually just use regular pip packages now which is very nice.
The communication on what to do is a disaster. Look at non obsolete https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/tutorials/packaging-p... - my dude, their pyproject.toml doesn’t even specify a dependencies section, which is 99% of the value proposition of packaging.