✨ Adopt uv in CI (#368)

## Description

This PR updates the CI configuration to use uv by Astral (the creators
of ruff), which is an extremely fast Python package installer and
resolver, written in Rust. It is sesigned as a drop-in replacement for
common pip and pip-tools workflows.
See https://github.com/astral-sh/uv

Similar to ruff, it is extremely fast and in very active development.
This should speed up any of the Python-based CI runs without much
confirguration overhead.

This PR refactors the `minimums` check to make use of `uv`'s
`--resolution=lowest-direct" feature. This allows us to completely get
rid of the `constraints.txt` file.
Furthermore, it makes use of the new versions of `mqt-core`'s reusable
workflows.

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Signed-off-by: burgholzer <[email protected]>

Author: burgholzer

.github/codecov.yml

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ flag_management:
     - name: python
       paths:
         - "src/mqt/**/*.py"
-      after_n_builds: 3
+      after_n_builds: 12
       statuses:
         - type: project
           threshold: 0.5%

extern/mqt-core

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 
 import argparse
 import os
+import shutil
 import sys
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING
 
@@ -12,6 +13,9 @@
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
     from collections.abc import Sequence
 
+nox.needs_version = ">=2024.3.2"
+nox.options.default_venv_backend = "uv|virtualenv"
+
 nox.options.sessions = ["lint", "tests"]
 
 PYTHON_ALL_VERSIONS = ["3.8", "3.9", "3.10", "3.11", "3.12"]
@@ -49,6 +53,11 @@ def _run_tests(
     if os.environ.get("CI", None) and sys.platform == "win32":
         env["SKBUILD_CMAKE_ARGS"] = "-T ClangCL"
 
+    if shutil.which("cmake") is None and shutil.which("cmake3") is None:
+        session.install("cmake")
+    if shutil.which("ninja") is None:
+        session.install("ninja")
+
     _extras = ["test", *extras]
     if "--cov" in posargs:
         _extras.append("coverage")
@@ -66,29 +75,27 @@ def tests(session: nox.Session) -> None:
     _run_tests(session)
 
 
-@nox.session()
+@nox.session(reuse_venv=True, venv_backend="uv")
 def minimums(session: nox.Session) -> None:
     """Test the minimum versions of dependencies."""
     _run_tests(
         session,
-        install_args=["--constraint=test/python/constraints.txt"],
+        install_args=["--resolution=lowest-direct"],
         run_args=["-Wdefault"],
+        extras=["qiskit", "evaluation"],
     )
-    session.run("pip", "list")
+    session.run("uv", "pip", "list")
 
 
 @nox.session(reuse_venv=True)
 def docs(session: nox.Session) -> None:
-    """Build the docs. Pass "--serve" to serve. Pass "-b linkcheck" to check links."""
+    """Build the docs. Use "--non-interactive" to avoid serving. Pass "-b linkcheck" to check links."""
     parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
-    parser.add_argument("--serve", action="store_true", help="Serve after building")
     parser.add_argument("-b", dest="builder", default="html", help="Build target (default: html)")
     args, posargs = parser.parse_known_args(session.posargs)
 
-    if args.builder != "html" and args.serve:
-        session.error("Must not specify non-HTML builder with --serve")
-
-    extra_installs = ["sphinx-autobuild"] if args.serve else []
+    serve = args.builder == "html" and session.interactive
+    extra_installs = ["sphinx-autobuild"] if serve else []
     session.install(*BUILD_REQUIREMENTS, *extra_installs)
     session.install("--no-build-isolation", "-ve.[docs]")
     session.chdir("docs")
@@ -106,7 +113,7 @@ def docs(session: nox.Session) -> None:
         *posargs,
     )
 
-    if args.serve:
+    if serve:
         session.run("sphinx-autobuild", *shared_args)
     else:
         session.run("sphinx-build", "--keep-going", *shared_args)

noxfile.py

@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ tnflow = [
     "networkx",
 ]
 test = ["pytest>=7.0"]
-coverage = ["mqt.ddsim[test]", "pytest-cov"]
+coverage = ["mqt.ddsim[test]", "pytest-cov>=4"]
 docs = [
     "mqt.ddsim[tnflow]",
     "furo>=2023.08.17",