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by qwertox 452 days ago
So uv is resticted to pypi but does offer isolated Python installations, with precompiled Python binaries?
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chippiewill 452 days ago
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.

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the_mitsuhiko 452 days ago
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”.
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