Support environment package install with `uv`

[dannyfriar]

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The new uv tool (https://astral.sh/blog/uv) is much faster than pip in a lot of cases.

Would it be possible to add support to the hatch environment building to allow using uv pip in place of pip?

[ofek]

Yes but is blocked by https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/issues/1396

[domoritz]

Looks like https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/issues/1396 is fixed. What's needed to use uv with hatch now?

[ofek]

Only my implementation.

[domoritz]

Could you elaborate? I don't follow.

[ofek]

I mean the time it takes to do the literal implementation. Give me a few weeks.

[ofek]

https://github.com/pypa/hatch/pull/1380

[ofek]

https://hatch.pypa.io/dev/how-to/environment/select-installer/

[manmartgarc]

How can indeed verify that uv is being used? I am trying to just compare environment creation time with installer = "uv" and without it and I don't see much of a difference. Should I also add it to the environments dependencies section?

[MtkN1]

How can indeed verify that uv is being used? I am trying to just compare environment creation time with installer = "uv" and without it and I don't see much of a difference. Should I also add it to the environments dependencies section?

As far as I know, no functionality regarding uv has been released. To try this, use the development version. pipx install git+https://github.com/pypa/hatch Feature for uv is planned for v1.10.0. https://hatch.pypa.io/dev/blog/2024/04/18/hatch-v1100/