This chapter explores the UV Python packaging tool, emphasizing its speed, user-friendly design, and strategic alignment with PIP. The speakers elaborate on UV's development, its unique command-line interface, and seamless project management capabilities that enhance user workflows. They also discuss the complexities of Python installation methods, the importance of pre-built binaries, and the implications of trust in package distribution.
A couple of weeks ago, Charlie Marsh and the folks at Astral made another big splash with a major release of uv called "uv: Unified Python packaging" which has many far reaching features. We had to have Charlie on the show to give us the inside look into this development. Let's get to it.
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