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pipreqs
pipreqs - Generate pip requirements.txt file based on imports of any project. Looking for maintainers to move this project forward.
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vfox
A cross-platform and extendable version manager with support for Java, Node.js, Flutter, .Net & more
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Aurora: Maintenance-free, reliable and fast OS, stable like a Chromebook
> none of the docs really mention this
Searching for the sister distro you mentioned, this[1] was one of the first links I stumbled upon, which included a link to the ARM ISO[2] and checksum[3] along with this note:
> No homebrew, they don’t have arm builds, we will include Pixi[4] instead, which is a nice package manager built on the popular conda ecosystem - there’s some good stuff in there!
[1] https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/bluefin-lts-alpha-f...
[2] https://download.projectbluefin.io/bluefin-lts-arm64.iso
[3] https://download.projectbluefin.io/bluefin-lts-arm64.iso-CHE...
[4] https://github.com/prefix-dev/pixi
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Uv overtakes Poetry (for Wagtail users)
Have you checked out https://github.com/prefix-dev/pixi? It's built by the folks who developed Mamba (a faster Conda implementation). It has support for PyPI dependencies using UV, first-class support for multi-envs and lockfiles, and can be used to manage other system dependencies like CUDA.
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A year of uv: pros, cons, and should you migrate
Thanks for bringing up conda. We're definitely trying to paint this vision as well with `pixi` (https://pixi.sh) - which is a modern package manager, written in Rust, but using the Conda ecosystem under the hood.
It follows more of a project based approach, comes with lockfiles and a lightweight task system. But we're building it up for much bigger tasks as well (`pixi build` will be a bit like Bazel for cross-platform, cross-language software building tasks).
While I agree that conda has many short-comings, the fundamental packages are alright and there is a huge community keeping the fully open source (conda-forge) distribution running nicely.
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Uv, An fast Python package and project manager
same company has a different tool as well called pixi which aims for much nicer integration with the conda ecosystem.
https://github.com/prefix-dev/pixi
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Generate pip requirements.txt file based on imports of any project
> Please consider consolidating python dependency management instead of fragmenting it: https://github.com/mamba-org/mamba
Mamba doesn't even interact with the official python packing ecosystem... It is purely a conda replacement and conda packaging is not Python packaging (it's a more fundamental fragmentation than choosing a particular tool). So weird choice to not fragment Python dependency management.
If you depend on both conda and standard Python packaging (e.g. PyPI.org) you can use Pixi: https://github.com/prefix-dev/pixi?tab=readme-ov-file#pixi-p.... It attempts to bridge the conda world and the Python package world, so it's possible to rely more deeply on standards based packaging but still use conda tooling when you need it.
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I Like Makefiles
Pixi is native on Windows, can install a wide range of dev tools and has task running built into projects (alongside dependency management).
https://pixi.sh/
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Rye and Uv: August Is Harvest Season for Python Packaging
jax itself is just pip installable, so this should be drop-in. CUDA is it's own headache, and that's where mamba (now pixi[1]) really shines.
[1]: https://pixi.sh/
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Xmake: A modern C/C++ build tool
re: C/C++ development: anybody using conda/pixi for dependency management? Here's an example of compiling a C++ SDL program using pixi and the SDL dependency from conda-forge [1].
Seems viable as a replacement for things like vckpg [2] which only builds from source.
I'm still researching this but it seems like rattler [3] is the tool to use to build/publish packages. The supported repos are: prefix.dev's own hosting, anaconda.org, artifactory or a self-hosted server.
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1: https://github.com/prefix-dev/pixi/blob/main/examples/cpp-sd...
2: https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg
3: https://prefix-dev.github.io/rattler-build/latest/authentica...
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Install Asdf: One Runtime Manager to Rule All Dev Environments
I recently started using https://github.com/prefix-dev/pixi for Python projects. I really love it so far, but this tool looks a bit more mature, which makes sense considering pixi is relatively new.
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The primary programming language of pixi is Rust.
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