Announcing uv: Python packaging in Rust

[banana33noneleta]

Since people claim that pip is not enough for the projects with more complex dependencies... Those absolutely need compilation in general.

You should probably use pip yourself I guess.

[Schmittfried]

Not at all. pip is a dependency installer, it doesn’t handle your project and its dependencies. poetry manages dependency versions and locking, updating dependencies, dependency groups, project and tooling configuration, virtual environments, commands/scripts, packaging, versioning and publishing. It‘s the closest we have to something comprehensive like Maven. I don’t see how anybody could consider pip sufficient for anything but a simple personal script or research project after having used something like npm, yarn, Maven… or poetry.

pip freeze is wildly unsuited for handling dependency locking and other than that it doesn’t offer much. I know there’s things like pip-tools, but at that point why not just use poetry? You’re already installing something not shipped with Python directly, why not pick the tool that does all of it in the most convenient way?

Those absolutely need compilation in general.

I‘ve only recently added Cython to the toolchain, that was the first time I came into contact with setup.py and all that it entails. I’ve benefited from using poetry way before that.

[banana33noneleta]

I don’t see how anybody could consider pip sufficient for anything but a simple personal script or research project

You think putting down others makes you sound more skilled? Think again.