So I’m no expert, but I have been a hobbyist C and Rust dev for a while now, and I’ve installed tons of programs from GitHub and whatnot that required manual compilation or other hoops to jump through, but I am constantly befuddled installing python apps. They seem to always need a very specific (often outdated) version of python, require a bunch of venv nonsense, googling gives tons of outdated info that no longer works, and generally seem incredibly not portable. As someone who doesn’t work in python, it seems more obtuse than any other language’s ecosystem. Why is it like this?
pyproject.toml
track the dependencies and dev-dependencies you actually care aboutuv.lock
file that contains each and every lib that’s needed.uv sync
anduv run <application>
is pretty much all you need to get goingThank you for explaining so clearly. Point 3 is indeed something I’ve ran into before!