Because that one-liner will result in the model instantly running on your machine, which is much more useful than trying to figure out all the dependencies, invariably failing, and deciding that technology is horrible and that all you ever wanted was to be a carpenter.
Right: I could give you a recipe that tells you to first create a Python virtual environment, then install mlx-vlm, then make sure to downgrade to numpy 1.0 because some of the underlying libraries don't work with numpy 2.0 yet...
... or I can give you a one-liner that does all of that with uv.
stavros|11 months ago
simonw|11 months ago
... or I can give you a one-liner that does all of that with uv.