By default, `uv venv <venv-name>` currently removes the `<venv-name`>
directory if it exists. This can be surprising behavior: not everyone
expects an existing environment to be overwritten. This PR updates the
default to fail if a non-empty `<venv-name>` directory already exists
and neither `--allow-existing` nor the new `-c/--clear` option is
provided (if a TTY is detected, it prompts first). If it's not a TTY,
then uv will only warn and not fail for now — we'll make this an error
in the future. I've also added a corresponding `UV_VENV_CLEAR` env var.
I've chosen to use `--clear` instead of `--force` for this option
because it is used by the `venv` module and `virtualenv` and will be
familiar to users. I also think its meaning is clearer in this context
than `--force` (which could plausibly mean force overwrite just the
virtual environment files, which is what our current `--allow-existing`
option does).
Closes#1472.
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Co-authored-by: Zanie Blue <contact@zanie.dev>
> NOTE: The PRs that were merged into this feature branch have all been
independently reviewed. But it's also useful to see all of the changes
in their final form. I've added comments to significant changes
throughout the PR to aid discussion.
This PR introduces transparent Python version upgrades to uv, allowing
for a smoother experience when upgrading to new patch versions.
Previously, upgrading Python patch versions required manual updates to
each virtual environment. Now, virtual environments can transparently
upgrade to newer patch versions.
Due to significant changes in how uv installs and executes managed
Python executables, this functionality is initially available behind a
`--preview` flag. Once an installation has been made upgradeable through
`--preview`, subsequent operations (like `uv venv -p 3.10` or patch
upgrades) will work without requiring the flag again. This is
accomplished by checking for the existence of a minor version symlink
directory (or junction on Windows).
### Features
* New `uv python upgrade` command to upgrade installed Python versions
to the latest available patch release:
```
# Upgrade specific minor version
uv python upgrade 3.12 --preview
# Upgrade all installed minor versions
uv python upgrade --preview
```
* Transparent upgrades also occur when installing newer patch versions:
```
uv python install 3.10.8 --preview
# Automatically upgrades existing 3.10 environments
uv python install 3.10.18
```
* Support for transparently upgradeable Python `bin` installations via
`--preview` flag
```
uv python install 3.13 --preview
# Automatically upgrades the `bin` installation if there is a newer patch version available
uv python upgrade 3.13 --preview
```
* Virtual environments can still be tied to a patch version if desired
(ignoring patch upgrades):
```
uv venv -p 3.10.8
```
### Implementation
Transparent upgrades are implemented using:
* Minor version symlink directories (Unix) or junctions (Windows)
* On Windows, trampolines simulate paths with junctions
* Symlink directory naming follows Python build standalone format: e.g.,
`cpython-3.10-macos-aarch64-none`
* Upgrades are scoped to the minor version key (as represented in the
naming format: implementation-minor version+variant-os-arch-libc)
* If the context does not provide a patch version request and the
interpreter is from a managed CPython installation, the `Interpreter`
used by `uv python run` will use the full symlink directory executable
path when available, enabling transparently upgradeable environments
created with the `venv` module (`uv run python -m venv`)
New types:
* `PythonMinorVersionLink`: in a sense, the core type for this PR, this
is a representation of a minor version symlink directory (or junction on
Windows) that points to the highest installed managed CPython patch
version for a minor version key.
* `PythonInstallationMinorVersionKey`: provides a view into a
`PythonInstallationKey` that excludes the patch and prerelease. This is
used for grouping installations by minor version key (e.g., to find the
highest available patch installation for that minor version key) and for
minor version directory naming.
### Compatibility
* Supports virtual environments created with:
* `uv venv`
* `uv run python -m venv` (using managed Python that was installed or
upgraded with `--preview`)
* Virtual environments created within these environments
* Existing virtual environments from before these changes continue to
work but aren't transparently upgradeable without being recreated
* Supports both standard Python (`python3.10`) and freethreaded Python
(`python3.10t`)
* Support for transparently upgrades is currently only available for
managed CPython installations
Closes#7287Closes#7325Closes#7892Closes#9031Closes#12977
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Co-authored-by: Zanie Blue <contact@zanie.dev>
Rustfmt introduces a lot of formatting changes in the 2024 edition. To
not break everything all at once, we split out the set of formatting
changes compatible with both the 2021 and 2024 edition by first
formatting with the 2024 style, and then again with the currently used
2021 style.
Notable changes are the formatting of derive macro attributes and lines
with overly long strings and adding trailing semicolons after statements
consistently.
## Summary
Adds a `--relocatable` CLI arg to `uv venv`. This flag does two things:
* ensures that the associated activation scripts do not rely on a
hardcoded
absolute path to the virtual environment (to the extent possible; `.csh`
and
`.nu` left as-is)
* persists a `relocatable` flag in `pyvenv.cfg`.
The flag in `pyvenv.cfg` in turn instructs the wheel `Installer` to
create script
entrypoints in a relocatable way (use `exec` trick + `dirname $0` on
POSIX;
use relative path to `python[w].exe` on Windows).
Fixes: #3863
## Test Plan
* Relocatable console scripts covered as additional scenarios in
existing test cases.
* Integration testing of boilerplate generation in `venv`.
* Manual testing of `uv venv` with and without `--relocatable`
## Summary
"Bare" made sense when we had a variant that seeded the environment, but
now that the crate _only_ creates a bare environment, lets drop that
terminology.
Whew this is a lot.
The user-facing changes are:
- `uv toolchain` to `uv python` e.g. `uv python find`, `uv python
install`, ...
- `UV_TOOLCHAIN_DIR` to` UV_PYTHON_INSTALL_DIR`
- `<UV_STATE_DIR>/toolchains` to `<UV_STATE_DIR>/python` (with
[automatic
migration](https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/pull/4735/files#r1663029330))
- User-facing messages no longer refer to toolchains, instead using
"Python", "Python versions" or "Python installations"
The internal changes are:
- `uv-toolchain` crate to `uv-python`
- `Toolchain` no longer referenced in type names
- Dropped unused `SystemPython` type (previously replaced)
- Clarified the type names for "managed Python installations"
- (more little things)
Extends #4120
Part of #2607
There should be no behavior changes here. Restructures the discovery API
to be focused on a toolchain first perspective in preparation for
exposing a `find_or_fetch` method for toolchains in
https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/pull/4138.
Updates our Python interpreter discovery to conform to the rules
described in #2386, please see that issue for a full description of the
behavior. Briefly, we now will search for interpreters that satisfy a
requested version without stopping at the first Python executable.
Additionally, if retrieving information about an interpreter fails we
will continue to search for a working interpreter. We also add the
plumbing necessary to request Python implementations other than CPython,
though we do not add support for other implementations at this time.
A major internal goal of this work is to prepare for user-facing managed
toolchains i.e. fetching a requested version during `uv run`. These APIs
are not introduced, but there is some managed toolchain handling as
required for our test suite.
Some noteworthy implementation changes:
- The `uv_interpreter::find_python` module has been removed in favor of
a `uv_interpreter::discovery` module.
- There are new types to help structure interpreter requests and track
sources
- Executable discovery is implemented as a big lazy iterator and is a
central authority for source precedence
- `uv_interpreter::Error` variants were split into scoped types in each
module
- There's much more unit test coverage, but not for Windows yet
Remaining work:
- [x] Write new test cases
- [x] Determine correct behavior around executables in the current
directory
- _Future_: Combine `PythonVersion` and `VersionRequest`
- _Future_: Consider splitting `ManagedToolchain` into local and remote
variants
- _Future_: Add Windows unit test coverage
- _Future_: Explore behavior around implementation precedence (i.e.
CPython over PyPy)
Refactors split into:
- #3329
- #3330
- #3331
- #3332Closes#2386
## Summary
This is mainly a cleanup PR to leverage uv-version in uv-virtualenv
instead of passing it via `uv`.
In #1852 I introduced the ability to pass extra cfg to `gourgeist` for
the primary purpose of passing the uv version, but since the dawn of the
uv-version crate dynamically passing more values to pyvenv.cfg is no
longer needed.
## Test Plan
Existing `uv` tests should still verify `uv = <version>` exists in the
venv and make sure no regressions were introduced.
The architecture of uv does not necessarily match that of the python
interpreter (#2326). In cross compiling/testing scenarios the operating
system can also mismatch. To solve this, we move arch and os detection
to python, vendoring the relevant pypa/packaging code, preventing
mismatches between what the python interpreter was compiled for and what
uv was compiled for.
To make the scripts more manageable, they are now a directory in a
tempdir and we run them with `python -m` . I've simplified the
pypa/packaging code since we're still building the tags in rust. A
`Platform` is now instantiated by querying the python interpreter for
its platform. The pypa/packaging files are copied verbatim for easier
updates except a `lru_cache()` python 3.7 backport.
Error handling is done by a `"result": "success|error"` field that allow
passing error details to rust:
```console
$ uv venv --no-cache
× Can't use Python at `/home/konsti/projects/uv/.venv/bin/python3`
╰─▶ Unknown operation system `linux`
```
I've used the [maturin sysconfig
collection](855f6d2cb1/sysconfig)
as reference. I'm unsure how to test these changes across the wide
variety of platforms.
Fixes#2326
## Summary
This PR adds support for pip's `--no-build-isolation`. When enabled,
build requirements won't be installed during PEP 517-style builds, but
the source environment _will_ be used when executing the build steps
themselves.
Closes https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/issues/1715.
## Summary
I think Camino is nice but it makes it much harder to work in
`uv-virtualenv`, since it's the _only_ crate that uses it. If we want to
use Camino, we should use it everywhere IMO.
Zanie Blue
John Mumm
konsti
Charlie Marsh
Pavel Dikov
samypr100