A plea not to use uv-build for Python (blogs.gentoo.org)

submitted 1 week ago by bignose@programming.dev to c/python@programming.dev

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@mgorny@treehouse.systems:

After seeing yet another dozen packages lose keywords on Gentoo because of a single key dependency switching to uv-build, I would like to plea on behalf of Gentoo users: please don’t use uv-build as a build backend.

Just to be clear, this is not about uv itself or any other Astral tools; these are good tools with a nice and responsive upstream. The uv-build backend is one thing we have to disagree on. I’m not saying it’s bad; I’m saying that its benefits don’t outweigh the drawbacks.

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[-] canaryWart@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

The additional work doesn't go away when you add support for higher end systems that most can't afford to use, let alone want to.

This premise, that progress requires abandon, is taken for granted because of commercial interests.

If people were as interesting in maintaining their projects as they were in riding the new wave, there'd really be no issue.