First release of our ‘platform’ package, Soil

With more Python packages, there are some common commands we use across several of them. So we made Soil to act as a package to hold all that common functionality. It is very much an internal package right now, though we may eventually split out functionality that others may also find useful.

On April 17th, 2026, we released a package, Soil, to PyPI. We made this package because we were ending up writing the same internal code multiple times in our other packages. So rather than continue to repeat ourselves, we put all the duplicate code into its own package! While right now the “target user” is firmly us, we’ve noticed that some functions we’ve made have the potential to be converted into their own standalone package intended for others to use as well (e.g. some of the functionals like fmap()).

Soil is our first Python package that is intentionally and fully built as a platform package. It has its own website, but we’ve kept it intentionally simple, and it mainly lists the functions that are found within it.