What the pls?

tl;dr; The pls package on PyPI is an abandoned Python version (last released as v6.0.0 in 2023). The actively-developed pls was rewritten in Rust and now lives at pls-rs/pls. If you installed it with uv tool install pls or pipx install pls, you have the wrong one. Uninstall it and install the Rust build instead (e.g. brew install pls-rs/pls/pls). You may have heard me sing the praises of pls. I really love the icons and colors to disambiguate files and provide more information about them, the developer workflow, and more. Here’s an example in the Warp terminal for my jinja-partials package. But installing and managing this package is weird and kinda deceiving to say the least. pls was originally pure Python (up to v6.0.0 in 2023). It’s listed on PyPI here. So it looks like that is just the latest, right? After all, if it was rewritten in Rust, it can still be installed via PyPI and in particular, via uv tool install pls. But no. There are a few funky things about the PyPI listing that…