uv overtakes Poetry | Wagtail CMS

The data ^ seems pretty clear – uv is now the second most popular package installer for Wagtail users, after pip, taking over from Poetry.

Poetry is still pretty popular – and so is pip. But the growth in uv usage likely isn’t just from new users of Wagtail like the data might convey at a glance (see the query – PyPI download statistics in BigQuery).

Note the chart above has July-August 2024 numbers manually adjusted – it looks like someone did an oopsie around that time, perhaps a uv early adopter letting CI go wild? (❤️ happens to the best of us) Or a version resolution gotcha for people testing Django pre-releases? Hmm.

What it means for Wagtail

We need to make sure it works well with uv, in addition to other tools! Possibly update some of our docs. uv as a first-class citizen for bakerydemo site? Updating the news template? We want to be careful that usage instructions make sense for all package managers, but also adapt to Python developers’ shifting expectations.

This is our current recommended install steps for first-time users:

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