Changing the directory structure for uv init --package

[benedikt-mue]

Hi, I am currently implementing uv as our package manager to replace poetry. In poetry, we defined the package entrypoints with packages = [{ include = "backend", from = "src" }] . Is there something similar possible with uv?

[charliermarsh]

I think uv init --lib will use a src layout by default.

[zanieb]

So does uv init --package:

❯ uv init --package example
Initialized project `example` at `/Users/zb/workspace/uv/example`
❯ tree example
example
├── README.md
├── pyproject.toml
└── src
    └── example
        └── __init__.py

[benedikt-mue]

Thanks for your quick response. I was rather curious if it is possible to change this behavior like in poetry with [{ include = "whatever", from = "whereever" }] ?

[charliermarsh]

I'm not sure exactly what you mean, but I think you're describing something that's specific to Poetry's build backend.

[benedikt-mue]

like changing the default layout? Say, I only want to have a flat structure:

example
├── README.md
├── pyproject.toml
└── project
           └── __init__.py

[charliermarsh]

You can't change the default layout that we create, but you can certainly change your project to use that layout!