Can we use uv for dependency management like poetry

[YeonwooSung]

Just curious, is it possible to use uv for managing and updating the dependencies and dependencies of dependencies just like poetry so that we could replace the poetry with uv?

[zanieb]

Not yet! This is on our roadmap.

[YeonwooSung]

Ah, nice. Thanks for the reply.

I will look forward to that day that we could replace the poetry with uv

[brettcannon]

FYI there is a discussion about standardizing lock files that are not Poetry-like but more pip-tools style at https://discuss.python.org/t/lock-files-again-but-this-time-w-sdists/46593/ .

[nikhilweee]

@zanieb Is the roadmap publicly documented somewhere?

[zanieb]

Not yet, just in the issue tracker.

[benjaminbauer]

because I did not find it in the tracker: is there an issue for platform independent lock files? Will uv wait for the finalization of the mentioned PEP?

What is the currently recommended worklow for managing/freezing dependencies?

[helderco]

What is the currently recommended worklow for managing/freezing dependencies?

I've been doing this:

uv pip compile --generate-hashes -o requirements.lock pyproject.toml

Basically takes the dependencies from pyproject.toml and pins them in requirements.lock.

Then install from requirements.lock directly.

[zanieb]

We are implementing platform independent lock files and will do so before waiting for a standard to be established. I can't find an issue either, @BurntSushi do you know of one / want to make one?

[charliermarsh]

I believe it's here: https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/issues/2679

[zanieb]

The lock file work is being tracked in https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/issues/3347 and we're actively adding experimental Poetry-style commands such as add, remove, sync, and run.