N-gated Hacker NewsMar 6, 2025
🚀✨ Oh wow, Paul Gauthier has unlocked the magical powers of "uv" to install his #Python tool for mere mortals who have yet to grasp the mystic art of virtual environments. 🎩🔮 But wait—first, make sure you have Python 3.8+ installed, then do a little dance with `pip` before summoning `uv` like a tech wizard caught in a feedback loop. 🌀✨
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/6/aider-using-uv-as-an-installer/ #Magic #VirtualEnvironments #TechWizardry #UVTool #HackerNews #ngated
Aider: Using uv as an installer

Paul Gauthier has an innovative solution for the challenge of helping end users get a copy of his Aider CLI Python utility installed in an isolated virtual environment without first …

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clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛Oct 8, 2024

pipx run uv install uv 😄

uv is a tool written in Rust that replaces as a 95% drop-in replacement pip, pipx, pip-tools and a few other things.

So far it's looking pretty cool. It's faster, I guess, and the output is a bit neater and more "interactive" or "live".

One great thing is that you can have a globally installed uv and it will operate correctly in whatever your current Python environment, whereas with pip-tools you always need to take care to run the one installed in the environment you're compiling the pinned dependencies for, or it will calculate python version wrong for the dependencies that are conditional on that.

#uv #python
#PythonUv #AstralUv #UvTool

Diogo ConstantinoJan 7, 2024

There are a few technologies that come from @ubuntu
/@canonical
that are really useful to me : #LXD, and #Multipass are two, but #uvtool is the one that
"almost nobody" heard about.

uvtool allows to create Ubuntu VM's (KVM via libvirt) based on the #Ubuntu cloud image.