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With `Option<T>` and `.unwrap_or_default()` later, the default of `T`
isn't shown in the help output.
Old:
```
--link-mode <LINK_MODE>
The method to use when installing packages from the global cache
Possible values:
- clone: Clone (i.e., copy-on-write) packages from the wheel into the site packages
- copy: Copy packages from the wheel into the site packages
- hardlink: Hard link packages from the wheel into the site packages
-q, --quiet
Do not print any output
--resolution <RESOLUTION>
Possible values:
- highest: Resolve the highest compatible version of each package
- lowest: Resolve the lowest compatible version of each package
- lowest-direct: Resolve the lowest compatible version of any direct dependencies, and the highest compatible version of any transitive dependencies
--prerelease <PRERELEASE>
Possible values:
- disallow: Disallow all pre-release versions
- allow: Allow all pre-release versions
- if-necessary: Allow pre-release versions if all versions of a package are pre-release
- explicit: Allow pre-release versions for first-party packages with explicit pre-release markers in their version requirements
- if-necessary-or-explicit: Allow pre-release versions if all versions of a package are pre-release, or if the package has an explicit pre-release marker in its version requirements
```
 Python package resolver and installer, intended to
replace pip and pip-tools (pip-compile and pip-sync).
Puffin itself is not a complete "package manager", but rather a tool for locking dependencies
(similar to pip-compile) and installing them (similar to pip-sync). Puffin can be used to
generate a set of locked dependencies from a requirements.txt file, and then install those
locked dependencies into a virtual environment.
Puffin represents an intermediary goal in our pursuit of building a "Cargo for Python": a Python
package manager that is extremely fast, reliable, and easy to use -- capable of replacing not only
pip, but also pipx, pip-tools, virtualenv, tox, setuptools, and even pyenv, by way of
managing the Python installation itself.
Puffin's limited scope allows us to solve many of the low-level problems that are required to
build such a package manager (like package installation) while shipping an immediately useful tool
with a minimal barrier to adoption. Try it today in lieu of pip and pip-tools.
Features
- Extremely fast dependency resolution and installation: install dependencies in sub-second time.
- Disk-space efficient: Puffin uses a global cache to deduplicate dependencies, and uses Copy-on-Write on supported filesystems to reduce disk usage.
Limitations
Puffin does not yet support:
- Windows
- Editable installs (
pip install -e ...) - Package-less requirements (
pip install https://...) --find-links- ...
Like pip-compile, Puffin generates a platform-specific requirements.txt file (unlike, e.g.,
poetry, which generates a platform-agnostic poetry.lock file). As such, Puffin's
requirements.txt files are not portable across platforms and Python versions.
Usage
To resolve a requirements.in file:
cargo run -p puffin-cli -- pip-compile requirements.in
To install from a resolved requirements.txt file:
cargo run -p puffin-cli -- pip-sync requirements.txt
For more, see cargo run -p puffin-cli -- --help:
Usage: puffin [OPTIONS] <COMMAND>
Commands:
pip-compile Compile a `requirements.in` file to a `requirements.txt` file
pip-sync Sync dependencies from a `requirements.txt` file
pip-uninstall Uninstall packages from the current environment
clean Clear the cache
freeze Enumerate the installed packages in the current environment
venv Create a virtual environment
add Add a dependency to the workspace
remove Remove a dependency from the workspace
help Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)
Options:
-q, --quiet Do not print any output
-v, --verbose Use verbose output
-n, --no-cache Avoid reading from or writing to the cache
--cache-dir <CACHE_DIR> Path to the cache directory [env: PUFFIN_CACHE_DIR=]
-h, --help Print help
-V, --version Print version
License
Puffin is licensed under either of
- Apache License, Version 2.0, (LICENSE-APACHE or https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
- MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
at your option.
Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in Puffin by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dually licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.
