alt Hacker News> Man, it's easy to be fast when you're wrong.
There's never going to be a Python 4 so I don't think they are wrong. Even if lighting strikes thrice there's no way they could migrate people to Python 4 before uv could be updated to "fix" that.
> Ambiguity detection is important.
I'm not sure what you mean here. Pip doesn't detect any ambiguities. In fact Pip's behaviour is a gaping security hole that they've refused to fix, and as far as I know the only way to avoid it is to use `uv` (or register all of your internal company package names on PyPI which nobody wants to do).
> thus shifting the bytecode compilation burden to first startup after install
Which is a much better option.
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> Pip doesn't detect any ambiguities. In fact Pip's behaviour is a gaping security hole that they've refused to fix, and as far as I know the only way to avoid it is to use `uv`
Agreed the current behavior is stupid, FWIW. I hope PEPs 708 and 752 get implemented soon. I'm just pointing out that there's an important qualitative difference between
1. we do the same job, but much faster; and
2. we decided your job is stupid and so don't do it, realizing speedups.
uv presents itself as #1 but is actually #2, and that's a shame.
There's never going to be a Python 4
There will, but called Pyku ...