However, other comments make it sound like a bunch of other projects have discovered that PyPI is a good distribution channel. Which, to me, sounds like using the Internet Archive as your CDN. Is PyPI the next apt/yum/brew or what?

  uvx deno --version

The wheel comes in five flavors: https://pypi.org/project/deno/#files - Windows x86, manylinux x86 and ARM64, macOS x86 and ARM64.

That's a lot of machines that can now get a working Deno directly from PyPI.

I also ran into some weird issues where sometimes the binary isn't executable and you have to chmod +x it - including in GitHub Actions workflows. I had to workaround it like this: https://github.com/simonw/denobox/blob/8076ddfd78ee8faa6f1cd...

    - name: Run tests
      run: |
        chmod +x $(python -c "import deno; print(deno.find_deno_bin())")
        python -m pytest

PyPi: https://pypi.org/project/deno/

GitHub: https://github.com/denoland/deno_pypi

(Note that the GitHub link in the first post of the issue linked by this HN post now redirects to the official location, as of the time I write this.)

Other cool tools you can install from pypi:

1. https://pypi.org/project/cmake/

2. https://pypi.org/project/ninja/

3. an entire c/c++/zig toolchain: https://pypi.org/project/ziglang/

4. the nvcc cuda compiler: https://pypi.org/project/nvidia-cuda-nvcc/