Extends https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/pull/13841 — I'll drop that
commit later after that pull request merges but it's small.
I find the split into a "Configuration" section awkward and don't think
it's helping us. Everything moved into the "Concepts" section, except
the "Environment variables" page which definitely belongs in the
reference and the "Installer" page which is fairly niche and seems
better in the reference.
Before / After
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Add configuration documentation for the build backend and make it the
preview default.
The build backend should generally work with default configuration
unless you want specific features such as flat layout or module
renaming, there is only a dedicated configuration, but no concept or
guide page for the build backend. Once the build backend is stable, we
can update the guide documentation to explain that uv defaults to its
own build backend, but other build backends are also supported.
The uv build backend becomes the default in preview, giving it more
exposure from users and preparing it to make it the default proper. The
current documentation retains warnings that the build backend is in
preview.
To see current uses of `uv_build` on GitHub:
https://github.com/search?q=path%3A**%2Fpyproject.toml+uv_build%3E%3D0&type=code
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uv itself is a large package with many dependencies and lots of
features. To build a package using the uv build backend, you shouldn't
have to download and install the entirety of uv. For platform where we
don't provide wheels, it should be possible and fast to compile the uv
build backend. To that end, we're introducing a python package that
contains a trimmed down version of uv that only contains the build
backend, with a minimal dependency tree in rust.
The `uv_build` package is publish from CI just like uv itself. It is
part of the workspace, but has much less dependencies for its own
binary. We're using cargo deny to enforce that the network stack is not
part of the dependencies. A new build profile ensure we're getting the
minimum possible binary size for a rust binary.
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Charlie Marsh