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I wonder whether it will have a flat namespace that everyone competes over or whether the top-level keys will be user/project identifiers of some sort. I hope the latter.
As I said a couple weeks ago, they're gonna have to cash out at some point. The move won't be around Uv -- it'll be a protected private PyPi or something. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44712558 Now what do we have here?
I haven't adopted uv yet watching to see what will be their move. We recently had to review our use of Anaconda tools due to their changes, then review Qt changes in license. Not looking forward to another license ordeal.
(I work at Astral)
> Waitlist > Private registry ouch.
Been waiting to see what Astral would do first (with regards to product). Seems like a mix of artifactory and conda? artifactory providing a package server and conda trying to fix the difficulty that comes from Python packages with compiled components or dependencies, mostly solved by wheels, but of course PyTorch wheels requiring specific CUDA can still be a mess that conda fixes
Given Astral's heavy involvement in the wheelnext project I suspect this index is an early adopter of Wheel Variants which are an attempt to solve the problems of CUDA (and that entire class of problems not just CUDA specifically) in a more automated way than even conda: https://wheelnext.dev/proposals/pepxxx_wheel_variant_support...
This is a joke, obviously. We've had more than 14 for years.
I've been burned too many times by embracing open source products like this. We've been fed promises like these before. They will inevitably get acquired. Years of documentation, issues, and pull requests will be deleted with little-to-no notice. An exclusively commercial replacement will materialize from the new company that is inexplicably missing the features you relied on in the first place.
For what it's worth, I understand this concern. However, I want to emphasize that pyx is intentionally distinct from Astral's tools. From the announcement post: > Beyond the product itself, pyx is also an instantiation of our strategy: our tools remain free, open source, and permissively licensed — forever. Nothing changes there. Instead, we'll offer paid, hosted services that represent the "natural next thing you ne…
Only viral licenses are forever.
As I said a couple weeks ago, they're gonna have to cash out at some point. The move won't be around Uv -- it'll be a protected private PyPi or something. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44712558 Now what do we have here?
> "An example of what this might look like (we may not do this, but it's helpful to have a concrete example of the strategy) would be something like an enterprise-focused private package registry."
https://hachyderm.io/@charliermarsh/113103605702842937
Astral has been very transparent about their business model.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I haven't adopted uv yet watching to see what will be their move. We recently had to review our use of Anaconda tools due to their changes, then review Qt changes in license. Not looking forward to another license ordeal.
We're hoping that building a commercial service makes it clear that we have a sustainable business model and that our tools (like uv) will remain free and permissively licensed. (I work at Astral)
I'm glad to see Astral taking steps towards that.