Is UV the FUTURE of Python PACKAGING? 🐍📦

Six months later, the answer is in:    • uv IS the Future of Python Packaging! 🐍📦  

Astral’s uv burst without a warning into the Python scene and made a huge impression! How does it fare in the context of Python's packaging problems… and what ARE those problems in the first place?!

🔗 Links

► Cross-Platform Lockfiles are coming (hopefully): https://discuss.python.org/t/lock-fil...
► structlog PR adding tox-uv: https://github.com/hynek/structlog/pu...
► build-and-inspect-python-package PR switching to uv: https://github.com/hynek/build-and-in...
► Two Ways to Turbo-Charge tox: https://hynek.me/articles/turbo-charg...
► require-virtualenv: https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/cli/pip...
► Packaging a Python package: https://packaging.python.org/en/lates...
► ripgrep is the BEST grep: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep
► Dependency Solving Is Still Hard, but We Are Getting Better at It: https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.07851v1 (turns out you can read it for free legally, too!)


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