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Re:PYX: The next step in Python packaging by fastball on Thursday August 14, 2025 @12:06AM (#44896643)
Strange to reject something when you don't even understand what it is.

PYX is a package registry, and therefore an alternative to PyPI (like how JSR is an alternative to NPM).

The alternative to `pip` that Astral has built is called `uv`. Feel free to not use that either, but personally I'd consider it if I were you. It has full pip compatibility (with significantly more speed), and many other nice features besides.

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Re:PYX: The next step in Python packaging by megamix on Thursday August 14, 2025 @01:04AM (#44896901)
Yes, it still follow the same PEP standard no? So why would I invest in something like that and I’m never impressed by “speed improvements”. uv high speed infrastructure is not really what is my bottleneck in projects.
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Re:PYX: The next step in Python packaging by fastball on Thursday August 14, 2025 @01:08AM (#44896922)
Two other major benefits besides speed were listed in the opening paragraph about why you might want to use PYX.

Likewise with uv, speed is only one of the (many) improvements over pip.

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