Autorider - Automatically generated overrides for Python packaging with Nix

Take the tedium out of Python packaging by automating the boring parts While only uv (through uv2nix) is supported at the moment autorider is designed to work with any Python dependency locker dependency locker.

Status: Experimental

Features

Automatic build-system inference

PEP-517 can automatically be added to your build by inspecting the dependency sdist.

Automatic native dependencies

By inspecting existing wheels, inspecting their RPATHs & looking up their corresponding Nixpkgs packages using nix-locate native dependencies can be automatically inferred.

Native build requirements

By looking at what files are present, for example CMakeLists.txt, it's possible to automatically infer that the packages sdist build process requires additional tools.

Method

Autorider works by reading package data from binary wheels & sdists. This makes it possible to infer more information than Python build systems normally expose.

The data flow of autorider is roughly as follows:

• Reader

Reads package from a local directory, an sdist or a wheel.

• Scanner

Implements different scanning behaviour on top of the reader.

• Output

Takes the result of a scan and generates concrete output.