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After this change, two wheel caches remain: `built-wheels-v0` and `wheels-v0`, docs screenshots below. Each contains both the wheel metadata, cache policy and zip or unzipped wheels under the same name. The zipped/unzipped strategy is as follows: In `pip-compile`, when we build a wheel, we store it zipped. When `pip-sync` or a source dist build in `pip-compile` need to install the wheel, we unzip it, remove the file and replace it with the unzipped wheel. This removes `WheelCache` and `UrlIndex` in favor of `Cache` plus `WheelCache`. The non-built wheel cache now considers index urls and the url for url wheels. I'm unsure if we need the `Unzipper` type, this could just be a function. I move `no_index` into `IndexUrls` and started using `IndexUrl` up to the clap level. I left a number of TODOs in the code, namely performing the actual invalidation of unzipped wheels and making the `InstallPlan` understand cache invalidation (i.e. uninstall wheels when their remote changed). 
puffin
An experimental Python packaging tool.
Motivation
Puffin is an extremely fast (experimental) Python package resolver and installer, intended to
replace pip and pip-tools (pip-compile and pip-sync).
Puffin itself is not a complete "package manager", but rather a tool for locking dependencies
(similar to pip-compile) and installing them (similar to pip-sync). Puffin can be used to
generate a set of locked dependencies from a requirements.txt file, and then install those
locked dependencies into a virtual environment.
Puffin represents an intermediary goal in our pursuit of building a "Cargo for Python": a Python
package manager that is extremely fast, reliable, and easy to use -- capable of replacing not only
pip, but also pipx, pip-tools, virtualenv, tox, setuptools, and even pyenv, by way of
managing the Python installation itself.
Puffin's limited scope allows us to solve many of the low-level problems that are required to
build such a package manager (like package installation) while shipping an immediately useful tool
with a minimal barrier to adoption. Try it today in lieu of pip and pip-tools.
Features
- Extremely fast dependency resolution and installation: install dependencies in sub-second time.
- Disk-space efficient: Puffin uses a global cache to deduplicate dependencies, and uses Copy-on-Write on supported filesystems to reduce disk usage.
Limitations
Puffin does not yet support:
- Windows
- Editable installs (
pip install -e ...) - Package-less requirements (
pip install https://...) --find-links- ...
Like pip-compile, Puffin generates a platform-specific requirements.txt file (unlike, e.g.,
poetry, which generates a platform-agnostic poetry.lock file). As such, Puffin's
requirements.txt files are not portable across platforms and Python versions.
Usage
To resolve a requirements.in file:
cargo run -p puffin-cli -- pip-compile requirements.in
To install from a resolved requirements.txt file:
cargo run -p puffin-cli -- pip-sync requirements.txt
For more, see cargo run -p puffin-cli -- --help:
Usage: puffin [OPTIONS] <COMMAND>
Commands:
pip-compile Compile a `requirements.in` file to a `requirements.txt` file
pip-sync Sync dependencies from a `requirements.txt` file
pip-uninstall Uninstall packages from the current environment
clean Clear the cache
freeze Enumerate the installed packages in the current environment
venv Create a virtual environment
add Add a dependency to the workspace
remove Remove a dependency from the workspace
help Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)
Options:
-q, --quiet Do not print any output
-v, --verbose Use verbose output
-n, --no-cache Avoid reading from or writing to the cache
--cache-dir <CACHE_DIR> Path to the cache directory [env: PUFFIN_CACHE_DIR=]
-h, --help Print help
-V, --version Print version
License
Puffin is licensed under either of
- Apache License, Version 2.0, (LICENSE-APACHE or https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
- MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
at your option.
Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in Puffin by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dually licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.
