Packaging¶
The main dyad
package is actually a thin-wrapper to uv. It runs the main dyad-app
package as a uv tool.
Benefits:
- Avoids polluting the main Python environment and avoids weird dependency issues.
- Ensures the latest Dyad version is being run.
The only minor downside is that it adds a small overhead (~20ms) to startup.
Prior art¶
- https://github.com/Aider-AI/aider-install uses a similar pattern, although it does not directly run the main package, but only installs it. Aider itself has an update-checking mechanism.