I heard a lot of great things about uv before finally having a chance to dive into it over the last month and... honestly I'm not sold. It's fast, but the UX feels like it's mostly just a wrapper around older tools.

I ran into a frustrating issue today with uv lock. AFAICT there's no way to "unlock" an individual dependency. I either lock everything down or forgo locks entirely. In my case I'm working with two tightly coupled packages - both developed internally to my organization - where package A is dependent on package B and I always want the latest version of package B. But I still want all my other packages to be locked to specific versions.

My thought was to stop using a uv lock file and just go back to pip with all my dependencies pinned with hashes in pyproject.toml. But after some digging I realized there was no way to put dependency hashes in pyproject.toml. So my only solution is to go back to using requirements.txt, at which point I lose out on the primary value-add of uv.

This experience left me feeling like the "new and improved" tools are still half-baked and that I should stick with the old stuff. It's a little slow and clunky sometimes, but I'm familiar with it and once it's setup it just does what I want.