Re:Uv's killer feature is pulling in local dependencies
by zahlman on Monday January 13, 2025 @02:50AM
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> I assume these breaking changes are in the stdlib and not in the python interpreter (the language), right?
That's the usual case, but it can definitely also happen because of the language - see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51337939 .
> There was previous discussions about uncoupling the stdlib (python libraries) from the release and have them being released independently, but I can’t remember why that died off
This sort of thing is mainly a social problem.
Re:Uv's killer feature is pulling in local dependencies
by dagw on Monday January 13, 2025 @11:18AM
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I assume these breaking changes are in the stdlib
Well yes, but sometimes the features provided by stdlib can feel pretty 'core'. I remember that how dataclasses work for example changed and broke a lot of our code when we upgraded from 3.8 to 3.10,
There have also been breaking changes in the C API. We have one project at work that is stuck at 3.11 since a third party dependency won't build on 3.12 without a rewrite.
There was previous discussions about uncoupling the stdlib (python libraries) from the release and have them being released independently, but I can’t remember why that died off