Allow for uv global instantiation

[krstp]

I would like to see uv recognized for global virtual environments in a similar way to how pyenv works. Instead of focusing solely on in-project folder development, allow for global env instantiation.

In theory, this task should be accomplished by creating all virtual environments via:

uv venv ~/.venvs/my_project_env

To activate the environment:

source ~/.venvs/my_project_env/bin/activate

Alternatively, uv could add the following function to .bashrc/.zshrc:

function uvactivate() {
    source ~/.venvs/$1/bin/activate
}

Then users could activate an environment like this:

uvactivate my_project_env

[zanieb]

Related

• Option/setting to manage virtualenvs centrally #1495
• Feature Request: uv shell #1910

It seems like this is doable today with some small wrappers around uv, I'm not sure we'll add first-class support for this.