You might be interested in taking a look at the `uv download` sketch I started on last week https://github.com/astral-sh/uv-dev/pull/875

That's excellent news for uv, and I think covers one of two major use cases I often see where uv does not cover standard packaging workflows.

This one being downloading to an offline wheelhouse and installing from that.

The other one being having a shared named global environment ;o).

P.S. I'll have to remove this as an important feature nab has that uv doesn't when I make the announcement nab is no longer experimental, aha.