Supporting uv?

[ccoulombe]

uv works great on a local computer, but there's a few issues and pitfalls for it work correctly on the systems.

Blocking issues:

• uv must not install manylinux packages, see: Why it looks like uv is not respecting the manylinux config from PYTHONPATH astral-sh/uv#16540
• uv must see packages installed in other site-packages and read sys.path, see: Why uv does not seems to see python packages installed in a different site-packages astral-sh/uv#16541
• uv must see only installed python and not system python

Other issues

• not override --no-config
• must prefer our wheelhouse and still search on PyPI
• avoid installing a python version not supported (ie 3.14, 2.7)
• does not support our pip config

Caveats and Pitfalls

• Storage inodes and quotas issue
• uv run without a python module would create issues for users
• uv run script.py must be ran from the root project directory, else user will run into issues.
• our documentation does not document uv

[ccoulombe]

Will be partially fixed with ComputeCanada/easybuild-easyconfigs#105

[ccoulombe]

Wiki page: https://docs.alliancecan.ca/wiki/Uv