René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Adopt the template for applications","articleBody":"Currently, the template is really focused on libraries, not on end-user software, such as ML or data analysis pipelines, web portals, scripts, etc. Researchers are more frequently starting a new end-user project than a library.\n\nThere are usually different expectations from end-user software than from a library: the environment should be reproducible, e.g., require some sort of a lock file; package data setup may be required; Dockerfile or entry points usually should be set up. I think the next \"big thing\" for PPT may be support for projects like that, while we can use in-house end-user projects to test it, e.g., hyrax (which, of course, is a library, but also a user-level script), hats-import scripts, \"cone search v2.0\", and individual team members' projects (I'd be happy to test it with uncle-val).\n\nI propose to use `uv` for the lock file and tooling support, which makes it easy to manage virtual environments and gives a consistent way of running Python tools and commands via, e.g., `uv run pytest` and `uv run python -m my-module`.","author":{"url":"https://github.com/hombit","@type":"Person","name":"hombit"},"datePublished":"2025-11-25T20:12:57.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":1},"url":"https://github.com/556/python-project-template/issues/556"}