Re:Uv's killer feature is pulling in local dependencies
by mixmastamyk on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @12:01PM
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It’s not a drag if you ignore it and it doesn’t happen even once a decade.
Still I’m looking forward to uv because I’ve lost faith in pypa. They break things on purpose and then say they have no resources to fix it. Well they had the resources to break it.
But this doesn’t have much to do with installing tools into ~/.local.
It's not a non-issue. Yes it's not a showstopper, but it's a niggling drag on productivity. As someone who's used to the JVM but currently having to work in Python, everything to do with package management is just harder and more awkward than it needs to be (and every so often you just get stuck and have to rebuild a venv or what have you) and the quality of tooling is significantly worse as a result. And uv looks like the first of the zillions of Python package management tools to actually do the obvious correct thing and not just keep shooting yourself in the foot.