Zanie Blue

Related https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/issues/2252#issuecomment-1985287074 You could resolve this by using `--no-build-isolation` and installing the requisite build dependencies. @konstin did you forget to make sure this special case message was only raised under...

We're talking about it e.g. https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/pull/2236 and https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/pull/3049 and https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff/issues/10739 I think it's fairly clear that people prefer the XDG directory for configuration on macOS but I'm not sure what...

Personally I'm pretty interested it's just weird to go against the platform standard and notably our cache is also not using the XDG directory on macOS.

I'm happy to leave it open to gauge interest. Maybe we need a special toggle. Python interpreter discovery is a whole thing :) I don't think we should chat about...

Another datapoint is that `pipx` uses the XDG spec for storing installed tools.

Tool installation places binaries entry points according to the XDG specification on all platforms https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/blob/13b0beb56fdc607c1f38d820dbf8c95c8fd0ce84/crates/uv-tool/src/lib.rs#L264-L275 But that doesn't mean we need to place the virtual environment there. Regardless, I'm leaning...

Yeah of course — that's described in #3560 but I'll create a specific issue. edit: We should at least do #4671

I've opened a pull request to support the variable if set https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/pull/4769

It'd be nice, but I'm not sure it's a high priority in the short term. It seems non-trivial to implement right?

Can you note why?