I've been burned too many times by embracing open source products like this.
We've been fed promises like these before. They will inevitably get acquired. Years of documentation, issues, and pull requests will be deleted with little-to-no notice. An exclusively commercial replacement will materialize from the new company that is inexplicably missing the features you relied on in the first place.
As I said a couple weeks ago, they're gonna have to cash out at some point. The move won't be around Uv -- it'll be a protected private PyPi or something.
I wonder whether it will have a flat namespace that everyone competes over or whether the top-level keys will be user/project identifiers of some sort. I hope the latter.
tmvphil · 1m ago
Fundamentally we still have the flat namespace of top level python imports, which is the same as the package name for ~95% of projects, so I'm not sure how they
could really change that.
ddavis · 15m ago
Been waiting to see what Astral would do first (with regards to product). Seems like a mix of artifactory and conda? artifactory providing a package server and conda trying to fix the difficulty that comes from Python packages with compiled components or dependencies, mostly solved by wheels, but of course PyTorch wheels requiring specific CUDA can still be a mess that conda fixes
notatallshaw · 10m ago
Given Astral's heavy involvement in the wheelnext project I suspect this index is an early adopter of Wheel Variants which are an attempt to solve the problems of CUDA (and that entire class of problems not just CUDA specifically) in a more automated way than even conda: https://wheelnext.dev/proposals/pepxxx_wheel_variant_support...
TheChaplain · 10m ago
Pyx is just a registry, just like Pypi, or did I misunderstood it?
PaulHoule · 16m ago
Been waiting for something like this to make it easier to manage multi-package projects.
We've been fed promises like these before. They will inevitably get acquired. Years of documentation, issues, and pull requests will be deleted with little-to-no notice. An exclusively commercial replacement will materialize from the new company that is inexplicably missing the features you relied on in the first place.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44712558
Now what do we have here?