Last month, I wrote Python’s UV tool is actually pretty good about Astral’s new Python package installer and resolver uv, and this is a follow-up post. Since last month, I have added uv to over a dozen projects, and I recently learned that you could skip the venv step for projects that use containers or CI where the environment is already isolated. I mistakenly thought uv required a virtual environment (aka venv), but Josh Thomas recently pointed out that it’s unnecessary.
  • xantoxis@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Curious what the motivation is for this tool. I can see how rust would be much faster at dependency resolution, but dependency resolution has never been a bottleneck for me while I’m doing either ops or software development. Why is that the thing that needed speeding up?

    What I need from a Python package manager:

    • it’s present everywhere I need to install or develop Python packages

    That’s it. Pip scratches that itch. I also use poetry for env management and pyproject.toml management, that’s it.

    • Daniel Quinn@lemmy.caEnglish
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      6 months ago

      My thoughts exactly. What I want is Poetry’s workflow and use of pyproject.toml baked into Python.