Actually not true. One of the main differences with uv is you don't have to think about venvs any more. There's a talk about it from one of the authors at a recent PyCon here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CV8KRvWKYDw (not the same talk I linked elsewhere in the thread).
I said you don't have to think about venvs any more. It's great that we have a standard way to implement them, but this is only necessary in the first place because of the way Python is. Now we have a tool that enforces a workflow that creates virtualenvs without you having to know about them and therefore not screwing them up with ad hoc pip installs etc.
The implementation details don't matter. uv might follow PEP 405 but it could work just as well without doing so. The point is that it doesn't give you the bunch of extra footguns that any other Python package management does.
It matters immensely that it follows PEP 405, it makes uv the implementation detail. You can swap out uv for any other project management tool or build frontend and change nothing needs to change about the development environment.
> You can swap out uv for any other project management tool or build frontend and change nothing needs to change about the development environment.
> This is the entire purpose of the standards.
That seems to amount to saying that the purpose of the standards is to prevent progress and ensure that the mistakes of early Python project management tools are preserved forever. (Which would explain some things about the last ~25 years of Python project management I guess). The parts of uv that follow standards aren't the parts that people are excited about.
The parts of uv that follow standards aren't the parts that people are excited about.
I disagree. Had uv not followed these standards and instead gone off and done their completely own thing, it could not function as a drop in replacement for pip and venv and wouldn't have gotten anywhere near as much traction. I can use uv personally to work on projects that officially have to support pip and venv and have it all be transparent.
