Uv is available as a wheel from PyPI, so you can in fact `pip install uv` into an appropriate environment. Since it provides a command-line binary, Pipx will also happily install it into an environment it manages for you. And so on and so forth. (You can even install uv with uv, if you want to, for whatever reason.)

The wheel basically contains a compiled ~53MB (huh, it's grown in recent versions) Rust executable and a few boilerplate files and folders to make that play nice with the Python packaging ecosystem. (It actually does create an importable `uv` module, but this basically just defines a function that tells you the path to the executable.)

If you want it in your system environment, you may be out of luck, but check your full set of options at https://docs.astral.sh/uv/getting-started/installation/ .

The install script does a ton of system introspection. It seems to be structured quite similarly to the Julia installer, actually.

Pip.