It is young, and it does use established tools under the hood, but I think you should take another look: - It manages the portable python version downloads dep

It is young, and it does use established tools under the hood, but I think you should take another look: - It manages the portable python version downloads depending on what you've pinned in your pyproject or the standard version: https://github.com/indygreg/python-build-standalone https://github.com/indygreg/python-build-standalone - It uses Hatch, uv (or piptools), venv etc. - It has a sane set of commands and should work even if they swap out some of the underlying tools. - Its fast and has a great coverage of PEPs. I've used it now for a few versions and I think its the best meta-packaging/python management tool out there. I