Europe and China are both investing heavily in RISC-V chips. Thanks to the OpenKylin project the @conda-forge.org project is making progress as well. Today I ran Pixi on RISC-V for the first time.
If you're investing in RISC-V infrastructure and want the package tooling to match — let's talk.
Would you like a graphical installer for Pixi GUI? We're considering to add it to the MSI installer on Windows. Let us know – especially if you are distributing Pixi in-house.
A brain in a conda package. What!?
Read our latest blogpost on how to ship AI/ML models with conda packages!
prefix.dev/blog/packag...
The latest Pixi releases and installer on Windows are properly signed with a Microsoft Certificate.
Would it be useful to integrate signing for macOS and Windows into rattler-build?
Read more on how to get the skills on @pavelzw's blog post: pavel.pink/blog/pixi-s...
You can also contribute your own ones to the skills-forge!
Pixi skills are kinda cool. A couple extremely useful ones already hosted on prefix – such as the `conda-forge` skill, or the `rattler-build` skill. It's useful because it contains a bunch of expert knowledge, digestible for agents.
Install it by running:
pixi global install carapace
Then follow the installation instructions for your shell: carapace-sh.github.io/carapace-bi...
Everyone loves shell completions, right? With carapace, you get amazing shell completions for most CLI tools, including Pixi since the latest release. This works on all platforms and shells.
Are you looking for a pixi icon? `catpuccin` has a great one: github.com/catppuccin/v...
The @condaproject is moving forward with formalizing the current implemented standards! Strengthening the whole ecosystem and promoting collaboration.
We just published a blog post going into some detail on what makes patching source code hard: prefix.dev/blog/flickz... – it's not just the relatively unstructured diff formats. Source code also lives and breathes, and moves!
rattler-build handles thousands of real world packages, and they often come with small patches. Historically, we used a mix of `git apply` and `patch`, but both have issues for cross-platform compatibility with a wide range of real-world patches. Now, we have our own Rust library
First passagemath #WebAssembly packages available on the @prefix.dev emscripten-forge channel
#Python #SageMath #OpenSource #Mathematics
When you're building recipes for conda-forge, there is an example list that you can use as inspiration for your own recipe!
Hopefully we can extend this list with more community help!
conda-forge.org/docs/mainta...
Today was a good day for the Gnome ecosystem on @conda-forge.org! Two PRs merged to get more low level libraries: libadwaita, sassc, appstream, libshumate and json-glibc by Dan Yeaw and Felix Häcker.
Last week, we merged a large refactor of rattler-build to split it up into multiple crates and make the parser even more strict. As part of this work (together with @anacondainc) we ran the new parser over >3000 @condaforge feedstocks already converted to v1.
One of our favorite features of Pixi GUI: Notifications when tasks complete! A bit strange that the native Terminal app does not support this.
We're taking supply chain security seriously for the Conda ecosystem. That's why we integrate deeply with the @projectsigstore ecosystem for attestation – soon coming to recipes as well to validate source code (sdist, github release) attestations.
6/ Do you have issues with our website? You can now report them easily 🕵️
5/ The channel settings got a refreshed look. More to come!
4/ You can now yank and unyank packages really quickly by just checking some checkboxes. This works even on mobile in case you are in a hurry to remove some packages from the repository.
3/ We prefer to fetch your beautiful face from Github. Still falling back to Gravatar if you haven't connected your Github yet.
2/ We reordered search results to make sure large channels like conda-forge get a top spot!
1/ Even packages from @condaforge get a provenance snippet - as they contain information about the originating feedstock (but not signed using sigstore).
We're continually updating our website. Here are recent highlights
Sigstore attestations and provenance information are much more visible.
The @uwssec.bsky.social team wrote up why they switched to Pixi for all their research software engineering: "Pixi has allowed us to remove the friction of package management to focus on what matters: writing better, reproducible scientific software."
prefix.dev/blog/seeking...
Want to start using #Pixi for #ROS development? Use pixi-ros!
pixi-ros is a small initialization tool to help users get started with a pixi configuration file for their ROS workspace. It maps all the dependencies from the package.xml to the pixi.toml
This would replace the use of rosdep.
