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puffin

An experimental Python packaging tool.

Motivation

Puffin is an extremely fast (experimental) 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:

  • Source distributions
  • VCS dependencies
  • URL dependencies
  • Windows
  • ...

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-cli <COMMAND>

Commands:
  compile  Compile a `requirements.in` file to a `requirements.txt` file
  sync     Sync dependencies from a `requirements.txt` file
  clean    Clear the cache
  freeze   Enumerate the installed packages in the current environment
  help     Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)

Options:
  -h, --help     Print help
  -V, --version  Print version

License

Puffin is licensed under either of

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.