Shipping uv's binaries to millions of machines
summary
UV is a pure Rust Python runtime installer that reports 42 million downloads a month and pulls ~400 million Python packages daily; installation uses a generated cargo-disc curl|sh installer for Unix and a small prebuilt Windows trampoline bundled into releases. Binaries are built via Docker + QEMU emulation and maturin and PyOxide to produce many-platform wheels, with explicit workarounds for OpenSSL, macOS/windows runners, SDK/ABI targets, manifests, and older-OS compatibility.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:06What uv is
- 3:17Shipping uv to millions
- 5:45curlsh scripts best
- 8:57Shell scripting challenges
- 11:44Building uv’s binaries
- 13:53Cross-compiling Rust binaries
- 14:56Maturin for cross-compilation
- 17:25Packaging for Python
- 18:49Windows executable handling
- 19:31Summary
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