Comment by the__alchemist
2 months ago
I solved this in 2019 with PyFlow, but no one used it, so I lost interest. It's an OSS tool written in rust that automatically and transparently manages python versions and venvs. You just setup a `pyproject.toml`, run `pyflow main.py` etc, and it just works. Installs and locks dependencies like Cargo, installs and runs the correct Python version for the project etc.
At the time, Poetry and Pipenv were the popular tools, but I found they were not sufficient; they did a good job abstracting dependencies, but not venvs and Python version.
sounds awesome. Just out of interest, why do you think pyflow didn't catch on, but UV did?
My best guess: I'm bad at marketing, and gave up too soon. The feedback I received was generally "Why would I use this when Pip, Pipenv and Poetry work fine?". To me they didn't; they were a hassle due to not handling venvs and Py versions, but I didn't find many people to also have had the same problem.
thanks for sharing. Marketing seems frustrating to me for an open source project. I had similar issues with python in the past and i wish I knew about this project back then.
Polish and that uv gets you entire python interpreters automatically without having to compile or manually install them.
That in retrospective was what made rye temporarily attractive and popular.