pixi - dependencies manager

[xulman]

Hi,

I have some time ago turned myself into a pixi-propagator... and swtiched all my projects to it.

This is no wonder manager. It actually uses a lot from conda and pip under the hood, and is similar to uv manager.

I switched to using it because:

• It's light-weight and fast (mamba is too, I know)
• It's firmy attached to the project -- I don't have to remember conda/mamba env to use (this was the main selling point for me)
• It's isolated -- everything is in a local .pixi sub folder, I just remove it when guaranteed packages update is desired
• It's very easy to use... just pixi add package or pixi add package==version
• ...and it can work aside, as an alternative manager

I'm not saying to replace the proven and standard packages management, I'm offering it here as a parallel way of doing... with the risk that all (../setup.py, ../requirements.txt, and now even pixi.toml) config files should be synchronized...

For your kind consideration only. Preview is available on the pixi branch of this repo.

Cheers,
V.

[TimoK93]

Hey Vlado,

i am merging your branch to the main branch in PR #20 , since i think there is no impact on the main python functionality. Thanks for the contribution!

Best,
Timo

[xulman]

Hi Timo,
thank you, and for all pixi lovers :)

It's another dependecy manager that might resolve into a possibly slightly different set of imported/pulled-in libraries, which in turn might work tiny differently... so while no change in the Python code, still yet a theoretical risk of different behaviour...
But I think it will be alright.

Cheers,
V.