specifically for python packages,

while it's lightweight, shipping the kitchen sink (uv) is a no-go

so, it's a venv, with the pinned dependencies installed [0], a random example of how this looks like, here [1]

(specifically for uv; i tried to get `brew update-python-resources` and `homebrew-pypi-poet` working for a "private" package, it didn't really work; so i went ahead and created uvbrew [2] instead to help with the resource generation)

[0]: https://docs.brew.sh/Python-for-Formula-Authors [1]: https://github.com/hynek/homebrew-tap/blob/main/Formula/doc2... [2]: https://github.com/thewisenerd/uvbrew

that said, it's _really_ easy to have executables against random sdist with `uv run --with`.

here's something that i was writing just yesterday:

    #!/usr/bin/env bash
    PYSTABLE="3.13"
    SERVER="..."
    PACKAGE="xyz"
    VERSION="0.1.3"
    exec uv run --python "$PYSTABLE" --with "$SERVER/$PKG-$VERSION.tar.gz" "$PKG" "$@"