@freakboy3742 @glyph @jacob @sgillies An example of what this might look like (we may not do this, but it's helpful to have a concrete example of the strategy) would be something like an enterprise-focused private package registry. A lot of big companies use uv. We spend time talking to them. They all spend money on private package registries, and have issues with them. We could build a private registry that integrates well with uv, and sell it to those companies.
@charliermarsh @freakboy3742 @jacob @sgillies I have heard you say as much on podcasts, and this *could* be quite a sustainable path forward, but the specifics of what and how are actually pretty important. you want to go up against Artifactory and friends, but it’s quite possible that in the course of doing so, you discover that users don’t care about Python so much as Docker, and that makes you heavily prioritize a linux-container workflow, which cuts off native app development at the knees
@charliermarsh @freakboy3742 @jacob @sgillies this is just a nightmare scenario that I have made up based on a niche edge case I happen to personally care about a lot, not particularly a likely one, but there are a million like it I could throw out. Until the community knows where this is all going, it’s going to be a point of concern. And I realize that trying to find that path really quickly is hard! I do not read any bad faith into what you’re doing.
@glyph @freakboy3742 @jacob @sgillies Thanks, I genuinely appreciate that you're thinking about this seriously. To some degree what you're describing is just an unavoidable part of trying to build a business -- we might learn something new and our direction could change. It'd be wrong of me to try to convince you that it's impossible. The best I can do is just be honest about how I view the company and what we want to do vs. what we don't.
@glyph @freakboy3742 @jacob @sgillies For example... It's hard for me to imagine a future where we're not extremely focused on Python. It's the community and ecosystem that we know, it's huge and growing, it's where we we're known and where we know users / companies, etc. But again: that's just me being honest about how I view our roadmap / strategy today (and how I describe it to investors too). I think it's the best I can do right now, won't try to convince you of anything more.