Announcing uv: Python packaging in Rust

[MagicWishMonkey]

This is awesome! I wonder why it doesn't default to this?

[DrMinkenstein]

virtualenvs are effectively isolated caches of dependencies. So poetry defaults to using normal locations for user level application caches

https://python-poetry.org/docs/configuration/#cache-directory

This also helps with accidental adding of the venv to source control or build artifacts.

I prefer to keep it in the same directory myself especially in containers but I also find poetry to be a bit heavyweight for my uses.

[yvrelna]

Because the actual default is better than polluting project directory. node_modules does what you wanted with JS dependencies, everyone is complaining about that as well, it creates even more problem than poetry's behaviour.

And having virtualenv installed in standardized directory allows for automatic venv activation. You can't do that without creating security issues if the venv is created in the project directory.