migration from poetry to uv

[king-11]

make use of standard keys for project and dependeny specification

• provide sources to run uv build so that it can refer local packages
• using hatchling for build as is stock build option
• use optional-dependencies.dev for dev-dependencies
• add hatch targets for packages and includes where unclear

#7665

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[king-11]

pending changes:

• ci.yaml
• macos.yaml
• setup.sh
• reckless

[vincenzopalazzo]

What are the benefit of uv over poetry?

[cdecker]

It's much faster (5-10 seconds compared to minutes using poetry). While that doesn't sound too different, it means that we don't create long lived venvs that may drift from the metadata, causing fewer "it worked on my machine" kind of errors. It can also be used as a shebang, automatically wrapping for example a plugin, downloading dependencies on first invocation, creating the venv and only then passing control to python. This means we can make plugins self-contained and single file if we wanted to.

The speed, which unlocks all of these use cases, is done via caching, and interesting speedup ideas, that are quite fun to read up on. And finally, you don't need a system-wide python installation, since uv can also download and manage python versions (prevents you from accidentally polluting the system python and potentially break your OS).

[cdecker]

Great initiative @king-11 , I had a branch with some initial steps, but you are much further along, so I'd rather help you than double-tracking

[king-11]

Thanks @cdecker i will get the last few things in, just raised a draft PR given I saw some interest around it and wanted to have a pre-ready change look available.