Original title: "Use of PyPI as a generic storage platform for binaries", but I felt that lacked context.
Looks like simonw found the thread before I decided to post it, though (https://discuss.python.org/t/use-of-pypi-as-a-generic-storag...). I'm inclined to agree with that take generally; it seems that the uv-driven model of "hard-link an executable into a virtual environment" (so it has a consistent relative path but an arbitrary prefix, and hard-linking from a cache avoids redundant copies) solves a lot of problems that Linux package managers have been struggling with. (I could even imagine an entire distribution patterned after this, although it would require some cooperation from packagers.)
zahlman•1h ago
Looks like simonw found the thread before I decided to post it, though (https://discuss.python.org/t/use-of-pypi-as-a-generic-storag...). I'm inclined to agree with that take generally; it seems that the uv-driven model of "hard-link an executable into a virtual environment" (so it has a consistent relative path but an arbitrary prefix, and hard-linking from a cache avoids redundant copies) solves a lot of problems that Linux package managers have been struggling with. (I could even imagine an entire distribution patterned after this, although it would require some cooperation from packagers.)