![]() Closes https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/issues/4476
Originally, this used the changes in #4642 to invoke `main()` from a
`uvx` binary. This had the benefit of `uvx` being entirely standalone at
the cost of doubling our artifact size. We think that's the incorrect
trade-off.
Instead, we assume `uvx` is always next to `uv` and create a tiny binary
(<1MB) that invokes `uv` in a child process. This seems preferable to a
`cargo-dist` alias because we have more control over it. This binary
should "just work" for all of our cargo-dist distributions and
installers, but we'll need to add a new entry point for our PyPI
distribution. I'll probably tackle support there separately?
```
❯ ls -lah target/release/uv target/release/uvx
-rwxr-xr-x 1 zb staff 31M Jun 28 23:23 target/release/uv
-rwxr-xr-x 1 zb staff 452K Jun 28 23:22 target/release/uvx
```
This includes some small overhead:
```
❯ hyperfine --shell=none --warmup=100 './target/release/uv tool run --help' './target/release/uvx --help' --min-runs 2000
Benchmark 1: ./target/release/uv tool run --help
Time (mean ± σ): 2.2 ms ± 0.1 ms [User: 1.3 ms, System: 0.5 ms]
Range (min … max): 2.0 ms … 4.0 ms 2000 runs
Warning: Statistical outliers were detected. Consider re-running this benchmark on a quiet system without any interferences from other programs. It might help to use the '--warmup' or '--prepare' options.
Benchmark 2: ./target/release/uvx --help
Time (mean ± σ): 2.9 ms ± 0.1 ms [User: 1.7 ms, System: 0.9 ms]
Range (min … max): 2.8 ms … 4.2 ms 2000 runs
Warning: Statistical outliers were detected. Consider re-running this benchmark on a quiet system without any interferences from other programs. It might help to use the '--warmup' or '--prepare' options.
Summary
./target/release/uv tool run --help ran
1.35 ± 0.09 times faster than ./target/release/uvx --help
```
I presume there may be some other downsides to a child process? The
wrapper is a little awkward. We could consider `execv` but this is
complicated across platforms. An example implementation of that over in
[monotrail](
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pypi-types | ||
requirements-txt | ||
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uv-build | ||
uv-cache | ||
uv-cli | ||
uv-client | ||
uv-configuration | ||
uv-dev | ||
uv-dispatch | ||
uv-distribution | ||
uv-extract | ||
uv-fs | ||
uv-git | ||
uv-installer | ||
uv-macros | ||
uv-normalize | ||
uv-requirements | ||
uv-resolver | ||
uv-scripts | ||
uv-settings | ||
uv-state | ||
uv-tool | ||
uv-toolchain | ||
uv-trampoline | ||
uv-types | ||
uv-version | ||
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README.md |
Crates
bench
Functionality for benchmarking uv.
cache-key
Generic functionality for caching paths, URLs, and other resources across platforms.
distribution-filename
Parse built distribution (wheel) and source distribution (sdist) filenames to extract structured metadata.
distribution-types
Abstractions for representing built distributions (wheels) and source distributions (sdists), and the sources from which they can be downloaded.
install-wheel-rs
Install built distributions (wheels) into a virtual environment.]
once-map
A waitmap
-like concurrent hash map for executing tasks
exactly once.
pep440-rs
Utilities for interacting with Python version numbers and specifiers.
pep508-rs
Utilities for interacting with PEP 508 dependency specifiers.
platform-host
Functionality for detecting the current platform (operating system, architecture, etc.).
platform-tags
Functionality for parsing and inferring Python platform tags as per PEP 425.
uv
Command-line interface for the uv package manager.
uv-build
A PEP 517-compatible build frontend for uv.
uv-cache
Functionality for caching Python packages and associated metadata.
uv-client
Client for interacting with PyPI-compatible HTTP APIs.
uv-dev
Development utilities for uv.
uv-dispatch
A centralized struct
for resolving and building source distributions in isolated environments.
Implements the traits defined in uv-types
.
uv-distribution
Client for interacting with built distributions (wheels) and source distributions (sdists). Capable of fetching metadata, distribution contents, etc.
uv-extract
Utilities for extracting files from archives.
uv-fs
Utilities for interacting with the filesystem.
uv-git
Functionality for interacting with Git repositories.
uv-installer
Functionality for installing Python packages into a virtual environment.
uv-toolchain
Functionality for detecting and leveraging the current Python interpreter.
uv-normalize
Normalize package and extra names as per Python specifications.
uv-package
Types and functionality for working with Python packages, e.g., parsing wheel files.
uv-requirements
Utilities for reading package requirements from pyproject.toml
and requirements.txt
files.
uv-resolver
Functionality for resolving Python packages and their dependencies.
uv-types
Shared traits for uv, to avoid circular dependencies.
pypi-types
General-purpose type definitions for types used in PyPI-compatible APIs.
uv-virtualenv
A venv
replacement to create virtual environments in Rust.
uv-warnings
User-facing warnings for uv.
requirements-txt
Functionality for parsing requirements.txt
files.