Accelerate build times by using uv instead of pip?

[cclauss]

There is a lot of discussion about the Rust-based pip-replacement named uv.

• https://astral.sh/blog/uv
• https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/blob/main/README.md

Would it be of interest to accelerate pipenv build times by using uv instead of pip?

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

I'm always frustrated when pipenv builds take several minutes.

Describe the solution you'd like

pipenv builds take seconds instead of minutes.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Switch to non-pipenv solutions for our builds.

[matteius]

I am stuck on the philosophical questions of: would we need to rebrand to uvenv? maybe it should be a whole new project -- but is it realistically much faster when most things are network activity of getting the wheels, and then they still need to be installed? In all seriousness though, it might be worth me taking a deeper look, but we have to admit that pipenv is a big bear hug around pip and so there is a lot to detangle there if there were a motivation to wrap a different package library.

[cclauss]

The caching in uv is super impressive. The first build is lightning fast but the second is astonishing especially on a huge set of deps.