I think this would give us better hygiene than a global flag. It makes
it easier for users to opt-in to overlapping features, such as Python
upgrades and Python bin installations and to disable warnings for
preview mode without opting in to a bunch of other features. In general,
I want to reduce the burden for putting something under preview.
The `--preview` and `--no-preview` flags are retained as global
overrides. A new `--preview-features` option is added which accepts
comma separated features or can be passed multiple times, e.g.,
`--preview-features add-bounds,pylock`. There's a `UV_PREVIEW_FEATURES`
environment variable for that option (I'm not sure if we should overload
`UV_PREVIEW`, but could be convinced).
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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> 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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When removing a Python interpreter underneath an existing venv, uv
currently shows a not found error:
```
error: Failed to inspect Python interpreter from active virtual environment at `.venv/bin/python3`
Caused by: Python interpreter not found at `/home/konsti/projects/uv/.venv/bin/python3`
```
This is unintuitive, as the file for the Python interpreter does exist,
it is a broken symlink that needs to be replaced with `uv venv`.
I've been encountering those occasionally, and I expect users that
switch between versions a lot will, too, especially when they also use
pyenv or a similar Python manager.
The new error hints at this solution:
```
error: Failed to inspect Python interpreter from active virtual environment at `.venv/bin/python3`
Caused by: Broken symlink at `.venv/bin/python3`, was the underlying Python interpreter removed?
hint: To recreate the virtual environment, run `uv venv`
```
## Summary
This ended up being more involved than expected. The gist is that we
setup all the packages we want to reinstall upfront (they're passed in
on the command-line); but at that point, we don't have names for all the
packages that the user has specified. (Consider, e.g., `uv pip install
.` -- we don't have a name for `.`, so we can't add it to the list of
`Reinstall` packages.)
Now, `Reinstall` also accepts paths, so we can augment `Reinstall` based
on the user-provided paths.
Closes#12038.
Signed-off-by: Frost Ming <me@frostming.com>
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## Summary
This PR solves an issue on Windows that platform-specific paths are
written to the `RECORD` file when installing, which is inconsistent with
PEP 376, quoting:
> Each record is composed of three elements:
>
>the file’s path
> * a ‘/’-separated path, relative to the base location, if the file is
under the base location.
> * a ‘/’-separated path, relative to the base location, if the file is
under the installation prefix AND if the base location is a subpath of
the installation prefix.
> * an absolute path, using the local platform separator
## Test Plan
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Signed-off-by: Frost Ming <me@frostming.com>
Co-authored-by: Charlie Marsh <charlie.r.marsh@gmail.com>
Updates `uv python install` to link `python3.x` in the executable
directory (i.e., `~/.local/bin`) to the the managed interpreter path.
Includes
- #8569
- #8571
Remaining work
- #8663
- #8650
- Add an opt-out setting and flag
- Update documentation
## Summary
This PR declares and documents all environment variables that are used
in one way or another in `uv`, either internally, or externally, or
transitively under a common struct.
I think over time as uv has grown there's been many environment
variables introduced. Its harder to know which ones exists, which ones
are missing, what they're used for, or where are they used across the
code. The docs only documents a handful of them, for others you'd have
to dive into the code and inspect across crates to know which crates
they're used on or where they're relevant.
This PR is a starting attempt to unify them, make it easier to discover
which ones we have, and maybe unlock future posibilities in automating
generating documentation for them.
I think we can split out into multiple structs later to better organize,
but given the high influx of PR's and possibly new environment variables
introduced/re-used, it would be hard to try to organize them all now
into their proper namespaced struct while this is all happening given
merge conflicts and/or keeping up to date.
I don't think this has any impact on performance as they all should
still be inlined, although it may affect local build times on changes to
the environment vars as more crates would likely need a rebuild. Lastly,
some of them are declared but not used in the code, for example those in
`build.rs`. I left them declared because I still think it's useful to at
least have a reference.
Did I miss any? Are their initial docs cohesive?
Note, `uv-static` is a terrible name for a new crate, thoughts? Others
considered `uv-vars`, `uv-consts`.
## Test Plan
Existing tests
Adds display of the target path of the link (since the link filename
itself is basically static) and distinguishes between broken links and
missing files.
This changes `uv tool install` behavior with regards to re-using
existing environments.
In particular, this replaces the existing version-matching logic with a
tighter one, enforcing
a same-interpreter match.
This allows to properly switch between system and managed interpreter,
at the cost of
more eagerly invalidating existing environments every time there is an
interpreter change.
Closes: https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/issues/7320
## 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
Makes the `tools()` return value include per-tool errors. This makes it
easy to skip (rather than failing) in `uv tool list`, _and_ improves `uv
tool uninstall` to remove those invalid tools, rather than leaving them
around. (We already had that behavior for `uv tool uninstall ruff` with
an invalid `ruff`, but `uv tool uninstall --all` just left them.)
Closes https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/issues/5151.
## Summary
We now recreate the environment in `uv sync`, `uv tool install`, and `uv
tool run` if the underlying interpreter has been removed.
Closes https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/issues/4933.
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Closes#4653
## Summary
Adds the tool version to the list command right beside the tool name
```
$ uv tool list
black v24.2.0
```
Following the proposed format discussed in #4653
## Test Plan
`cargo test tool_list`
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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)
## Summary
Packages that provide scripts that _aren't_ Python entrypoints need to
respected in `uv tool install`. For example, Ruff ships a script in
`ruff-0.5.0.data/scripts`.
Unfortunately, the `.data` directory doesn't exist in the virtual
environment at all (it's removed, per the spec, after install). So this
PR changes the entry point detection to look at the `RECORD` file, which
is the only evidence that the scripts were installed.
Closes https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/issues/4691.
## Test Plan
`cargo run uv tool install ruff` (snapshot tests to-come)
We need this to power uninstallations!
The latter two commits were reviewed in:
- #4637
- #4638
Note this is a breaking change for existing tool installations, but it's
in preview and very new. In the future, we'll need a clear upgrade path
for tool receipt changes.
Adds support for `--reinstall` and `--reinstall-package` to `uv tool
install`. These are already available via the installer settings, we
just respect them now.
`--reinstall` implies a recreation of the environment and reinstallation
of the entry points.
`--reinstall-package` will only update a subset of the environment. If
the target package is the one with the entry points, we'll reinstall the
entry points. Otherwise, the entry points are not changed.
Adds detection of existing entry points, avoiding clobbering entry
points that were installed by another tool. If we see any existing entry
point collisions, we'll stop instead of overwriting them. The `--force`
flag can be used to opt-in to overwriting the files; we can't use `-f`
because it's taken by `--find-links` which is silly. The `--force` flag
also implies replacing a tool previously installed by uv (the
environment is rebuilt).
Similarly, #4504 adds support for reinstalls that _will not_ clobber
entry points managed by other tools.
This is the minimal "working" implementation. In summary, we:
- Resolve the requested requirements
- Create an environment at `$UV_STATE_DIR/tools/$name`
- Inspect the `dist-info` for the main requirement to determine its
entry points scripts
- Link the entry points from a user-executable directory
(`$XDG_BIN_HOME`) to the environment bin
- Create an entry at `$UV_STATE_DIR/tools/tools.toml` tracking the
user's request
The idea with `tools.toml` is that it allows us to perform upgrades and
syncs, retaining the original user request (similar to declarations in a
`pyproject.toml`). I imagine using a similar schema in the
`pyproject.toml` in the future if/when we add project-levle tools. I'm
also considering exposing `tools.toml` in the standard uv configuration
directory instead of the state directory, but it seems nice to tuck it
away for now while we iterate on it. Installing a tool won't perform a
sync of other tool environments, we'll probably have an explicit `uv
tool sync` command for that?
I've split out todos into follow-up pull requests:
- #4509 (failing on Windows)
- #4501
- #4504Closes#4485
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konsti
Frost Ming
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