As if there weren't enough packaging tools already: mitsuhiko/rye: an experimental alternative to poetry/pip/pipenv/venv/virtualenv/pdm/hatch/…

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  • rye

    a Hassle-Free Python Experience

  • The entire shim of rye fits into ~100 lines of Rust code: https://github.com/mitsuhiko/rye/blob/main/rye/src/cli/shim.rs

  • python-build-standalone

    Produce redistributable builds of Python

  • One interesting tidbit is that it completely ignores your system Python installations, and instead uses precompiled installations of Python by indygreg from PyOxidizer. This means you don't have to deal with installing Python. It just auto downloads the right builds.

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  • asdf

    Extendable version manager with support for Ruby, Node.js, Elixir, Erlang & more

  • what’s different from using https://asdf-vm.com/ ?

  • multiversion

    A hack that allows you to use different versions of the same library in the same Python process without clashes (by mitsuhiko)

  • I don't see much other than reliance on sys.modules keying that is a hindrance in a better import story, and even that is solvable. Already 12 years ago I showed that loading multiple incompatible versions of a library into the same Python interpreter is possible, and that was a long time before importlib landed which would make some of this easier.

  • huak

    My experimental python package manager.

  • Curious question, since both are written in Rust (thus performance-wise both will be great) what other differences are there between rye and huak ?

  • nix-cde

    Nix Common Development Environment

  • There's a project that does this with using Nix: https://github.com/takeda/nix-cde (this is a wrapper around https://github.com/nix-community/poetry2nix)

  • poetry2nix

    Convert poetry projects to nix automagically [maintainer=@adisbladis]

  • There's a project that does this with using Nix: https://github.com/takeda/nix-cde (this is a wrapper around https://github.com/nix-community/poetry2nix)

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  • mise

    dev tools, env vars, task runner

  • I can immediately see some things rye is doing differently, like keeping the venvs themselves free of pip and pip-tools. I wonder in your explorations if you've tried rtx for managing python installations, or my own zpy wrapper of pip-tools+venv (which can also replace pipx).

  • zpy

    Zsh helpers for Python venvs, with uv or pip-tools (by AndydeCleyre)

  • I can immediately see some things rye is doing differently, like keeping the venvs themselves free of pip and pip-tools. I wonder in your explorations if you've tried rtx for managing python installations, or my own zpy wrapper of pip-tools+venv (which can also replace pipx).

  • rbenv

    Manage your app's Ruby environment

  • Now about the second point on the complexity of the shim strategy (cf. the rbenv implementation) with respect to the PATH update strategy (cf. the chruby implementation), what do you think?

  • chruby

    Changes the current Ruby

  • Now about the second point on the complexity of the shim strategy (cf. the rbenv implementation) with respect to the PATH update strategy (cf. the chruby implementation), what do you think?

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