Not exactly -- part of pyx is a registry (and that part speaks the same standards as PyPI), but the bigger picture is that pyx part of a larger effort to make Python packaging faster and more cohesive for developers.
To be precise: pyx isn't intended to be a public registry or a free service; it's something Astral will be selling. It'll support private packages and corporate use cases that are (reasonably IMO) beyond PyPI's scope.
I'm confused how pyx would achieve this. In my experience unless uv/pyx is planning on pursuing being a new conda (and even then it's pretty incomplete), a single cohesive isn't possible because uv/pyx can't be the universal single source of truth. The value of Python has always been its ability to be integrated into a larger whole, and so the Python tooling must always defer to the tooling for the larger whole (and that space is composed of numerous competing tools and ecosystems). PyPI-provided non-pure wheels don't integrate well outside the ecosystem that's been built there, so I don't see how doubling down on it solves the underlying problem?
FWIW, I think the full paragraph around that snippet is important context:
> Beyond the product itself, pyx is also an instantiation of our strategy: our tools remain free, open source, and permissively licensed — forever. Nothing changes there. Instead, we'll offer paid, hosted services that represent the "natural next thing you need" when you're already using our tools: the Astral platform.
