Can it replace conda?

[MonolithFoundation]

The slowest thing is not pip, it's conda.

[FishAlchemist]

There have been previous issues discussing conda, but given the current support for it, I don't see it as a priority in the near future.

• Add support for managing Conda environments and packages #1703

It seems that uv doesn't support conda packages yet, so it might be too early to completely replace it.

[MonolithFoundation]

Thank you for your reply. Judging from the description of uv, it appears that some C++ shared object (.so) library dependencies cannot be properly handled in uv. This is a significant strength of conda. Literally, some Python libraries such as torch, librosa, and sox-python, etc., require their own.sos. Some even need a more appropriate libstdc++ ABI. In this regard, what is the current support status of uv?

If this can be supported, wouldn't conda can move into trash?

[konstin]

Shared libraries in packages are supported through the manylinux standard, which is widely used by machine learning libraries.

[chrisrodrigue]

It would be awesome if uv could install a .conda package into a venv.

On Windows, and likely other platforms, Anaconda bundles hundreds of these .conda packages in the anaconda3/pkgs directory. If one could use this directory as a package source (index) for uv, that would be sweet. uv makes environments way faster than conda.

In the meantime, it looks like conda convert could be used to turn the conda packages into wheels, which uv knows how to work with.

I’m not sure what the exact sequence of commands should look like.

[zanieb]

Let's discuss this in #1703 instead