Difference with pip on local non-editable installs

[hsheth2]

$ uv pip install '.'
error: Failed to parse `.`
  Caused by: Expected package name starting with an alphanumeric character, found '.'
.

# whereas pip allows this
$ pip install '.'  # works as expected

I saw #1000 - if I do uv pip install 'package-name @ .' then it works, but pip doesn't like that syntax. Ideally there'd be something that works uniformly across both.

$ uv --version
0.1.6

[charliermarsh]

👍 This is the same as #313 -- we'll lift this restriction eventually, it just made life easier for reasons that relate to implementation details.

[charliermarsh]

This is supported as of v0.1.24. You can uv pip install . directly, without including a package name.