Speed up and simplify github workflows (#1128)

- Enable parallel tests in the CI with pytest-xdist
- Migrate to the official `astral-sh/setup-uv` github action
- Call `pre-commit` run as a single job in CI instead of relisting each
check
- Use `uv` version 0.4.16
- Fix bug with pre-commit cache
- Update `publish.yml` to use  `astral-sh/setup-uv`

.github/workflows/publish.yml

@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@ on:
     types: [published]
 
 env:
-  UV_VERSION: 0.4.5
+  UV_VERSION: 0.4.16
+  PYTHON_VERSION: 3.12
 
 jobs:
   build-n-publish:
@@ -14,16 +15,19 @@ jobs:
       id-token: write
 
     steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@master
+    - name: Checkout source files
+      uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+    - name: Install uv
+      uses: astral-sh/setup-uv@v3
+
     - name: Setup python
       uses: actions/setup-python@v4
       with:
-        python-version: "3.x"
+        python-version: ${{ env.PYTHON_VERSION }}
 
-    - name: Install uv
-      run: |-
-        pipx install uv==${{ env.UV_VERSION }} --python "${{ steps.setup-python.outputs.python-path }}"
     - name: Build a binary wheel and a source tarball
       run: uv build
+
     - name: Publish release on pypi
       uses: pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish@release/v1