[qwertox]

So the only difference is that Conda also isolates "system" libraries (like libcublasLt.so), or does uv also do this?

It's not that uv is not an option for me, I made this move to miniforge before uv was on my radar because it wasn't popular, but I'm still at a point where I'm not sure if uv can do what I need.

[dharmab]

Try Pixi (https://prefix.dev/). It uses uv for Python while also managing your other libraries from Conda. It has a migration path from Conda.

[rmholt]

According to these docs

https://docs.astral.sh/uv/pip/environments/

I think uv supports conda envs

[the_mitsuhiko]

uv does not ship system libraries because pypi does not have them. There is a philosophical difference between pypi and conda today. I believe over time pypi will likely ship some system libraries but we will see.

[qwertox]

So uv is resticted to pypi but does offer isolated Python installations, with precompiled Python binaries?

[chippiewill]

Yeah it has precompiled Python binaries. They're custom standalone builds of CPython: https://github.com/astral-sh/python-build-standalone

You can also import existing Python versions into uv, for example on my Mac it has imported the Homebrew versions.

[the_mitsuhiko]

It doesn’t “restrict” to pypi but it wants to be rooted in pypi. That means if you install “tensorflow” you get it from there. The state of pypi is the state of pypi and I have some hope that this also will improve. See for instance the efforts that go into “wheel next”.