Support uv pip compile on uv manager

[rarkins]

Discussed in #30899

^{Originally posted by mkniewallner August 20, 2024}

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Support for uv manager was added in #30756, which closed #27841, but the PR only added a partial implementation, as uv supports 2 different ways of locking dependencies:

• universal one with uv.lock output, which the PR implemented
• pip-tools-like one with requirements.txt output, through uv pip compile, which was the initial discussion of the issue

Having a dedicated issue for the 2nd item would make it easier to track support for it as well.

[zanieb]

(and the pip-tools like interface also includes a --universal resolution flag to perform universal resolutions in the legacy format)

[jonathan-s]

I'm looking to use renovate, but I see that it still doesn't support uv pip compile. Is this a blocker from the UV project or is this a blocker from renovate side?

Would be nice to see this happening.

[zanieb]

There are no blockers on the uv side.