How should we go about updating the global tools applications?

[Zander-1024]

We can use rye install ... to install some python applications, but how to update it? Currently it seems the only option is to uninstall and then reinstall. pip can use --upgrade to update the application. Can we also add another parameter to update the application?

[ischaojie]

The functionality of rye install is based on rye add, so there should be an update mechanism such as adding the --upgrade flag, so that the project's virtual environment can update the package (as well as synchronize the update of the pyproject.toml file), and the tools can be updated as well.

[ischaojie]

Also is there a need for a command like --upgrade-all to update all the tools?

[catwell]

You can rye install the-tool --force to update.

[Zander-1024]

You can rye install the-tool --force to update.您可以 rye install the-tool --force 进行更新。

you are right, but it doesn't feel very graceful.

[mitsuhiko]

It's not very graceful, but it works for now. I think I should add this to the docs until a better command exists.

[ischaojie]

related: https://github.com/mitsuhiko/rye/discussions/518

[dimfeld]

The main problem with “rye install the-tool --force” right now is that it doesn’t work great when run automatically, e.g. as part of a script to update various global packages throughout the system.

I wrote a bit about that here: https://github.com/mitsuhiko/rye/discussions/496#discussion-5838264

But the short version is that you lose any pinned python version for a tool, and it always reinstalls the tool even if the version hasn’t changed, so it gets slow when you have a lot of them

[JonZeolla]

If uv is used to facilitate this, perhaps uv tool upgrade could be exposed as rye tools upgrade? Related uv addition within the past couple of days: https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/commit/cbc3274848dbbf8420b475232579db962a863811 (new as of uv 0.2.35)