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OpenAI to acquire Astral (openai.com)
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I thought this was worthy of it's own post rather than a sneery comment. Astral make UV which at this point is a load bearing part of the python software ecosystem. This could have a huge knock on effect on the open source community.

I for one can't wait for non-deterministic package management

"You're absolutely right, I did install the wrong package and infect your system with malware. I will try much harder next time"

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[–] scruiser@awful.systems 1 points 22 hours ago

Is switching to pdm as easy as installing it, then initializing pdm and remaking the pyproject.toml by adding all the dependencies with pdm? (If I'm understanding right, this basically seems like the same workflow as poetry?)