Self-contained Python scripts with uv

1. Redis

   1 403 70,651 9.8 C

   For developers, who are building real-time data-driven applications, Redis is the preferred, fastest, and most feature-rich cache, data structure server, and document and vector query engine.

   

   As I understand it, relicensing is possible when a project has a Contributor Licensing Agreement (CLA) which says that you're signing over your copyright to your contribution to the project's owners. (Who will eventually be bought out by the worst rich person you can think of - Yes, him.)

   I peeked in uv's contributing guide and issues and didn't see any CLA. In PyTorch the CLA was mentioned at the top of the contributing guide.

   Although, there should have been a community fork of the last FOSS version of Anaconda. That's what happened with Redis, and Redis uses a CLA: https://github.com/redis/redis/blob/unstable/CONTRIBUTING.md...

   Don't ever sign a CLA, kids. Hell, only contribute to copyleft projects. We get paid too much to work for free.

2. InfluxDB

   www.influxdata.com featured

   InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.

   

3. uv

   2 149 66,128 10.0 Rust

   An extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust.

   

   uv is licensed under either MIT or Apache-2.0[0]

   They can always stop developing or fork to a different license and all future work belongs under that license, but you can't back date licenses, so what exists is guaranteed Open Source. If you're super worried, you can create a fork and just keep it in sync.

   But this is essentially true about any other OSS project so I wouldn't be concerned. As far as I'm aware, conda was never open sourced and had always distributed binaries.

   [0] https://github.com/astral-sh/uv?tab=readme-ov-file#license

4. swift-sh

   3 3 3 4.8 Swift

   Easily script with third-party Swift dependencies. (by xcode-actions)

   

   Hey I have done the same for Swift scripts! (Well I have rewritten what Homebrew’s creator did some time ago, but does not maintain anymore, to be precise.)

   https://github.com/xcode-actions/swift-sh

5. vscode-python

   4 82 4,467 9.5 TypeScript

   Python extension for Visual Studio Code

   

   help get this supported in vscode by liking the issue here: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-python/issues/24916

6. 0install

   5 8 537 2.0 OCaml

   the core 0install package

   

   Overall, and admittedly from a bit of a distance, uv run feels like a reinvention of Zero Install, but for only Python.

   I also wondered why virtual environments were invented for Python when general environment managers (like Modules) already existed.

   These packaging and environment problems have never been specific to Python

   https://0install.net/

7. Nuitka

   6 104 13,713 9.9 Python

   Nuitka is a Python compiler written in Python. It's fully compatible with Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.4-3.13. You feed it your Python app, it does a lot of clever things, and spits out an executable or extension module.

   

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