UV IS NOT A PACKAGING TOOL!! It is just an installer! It is not a build backend, it does not know how to build you some wheels, it only knows how to delegate to other build tools. I can’t believe we are repeating this exact trap that pip fell into almost two decades later.
#python #packaging #uv #rant
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