There are a bunch of problems with PyPI. For example, there's no metadata API, you have to actually fetch each wheel file and inspect it to figure out certain things about the packages you're trying to resolve/install.
It would be nice if they contributed improvements upstream, but then they can't capture revenue from doing it. I guess it's better to have an alternative and improved PyPI, than to have no improvements and a sense of pride.
There is a lot of other stuff going on with Pyx, but "uv-native metadata APIs" is the relevant one for this example.
It would be nice if they contributed improvements upstream, but then they can't capture revenue from doing it. I guess it's better to have an alternative and improved PyPI, than to have no improvements and a sense of pride.
There is a lot of other stuff going on with Pyx, but "uv-native metadata APIs" is the relevant one for this example.