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Introducing a New Identity for Prefix.dev
Since 2021 we've used the same identity and the website was mostly consistent, today we are transitioning to a new identity.
Tim de Jager
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Using Pixi as a System Package Manager with Shortcuts and Completions
Pixi Global can be used for much more than just downloading and exposing CLI tools. In this blog post, we demonstrate two capabilities of pixi global which are core to making it a featureful and powerful system package manager: shortcuts, and (auto-)completions.
Lucas Colley
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Mutex packages in the Conda Ecosystem
Mutex packages are a useful mechanism to guide the solver towards certain dependencies, mutually excluding other dependency trees.
Wolf Vollprecht
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Build C++ projects with Pixi
Painless dependency management (including shared libraries), monorepos and CI/CD is here for C++/CMake projects with Pixi.
Ruben Arts
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Securing the Conda Package Supply Chain with Sigstore
We're pleased to announce that sigstore support is now in public beta on prefix.dev! The Conda ecosystem can now use Sigstore to enhance the Software Supply Chain Security with cryptographic attestations.
Wolf Vollprecht
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How FreeCAD uses Pixi
This is a guest blog post by Jackson Oursland - a FreeCAD maintainer and esteemed member of the conda-forge and Pixi community! FreeCAD uses Conda packages to build AppImages, DMG and Windows artifacts. Pixi greatly simplifies the developer workflow.
Jackson Oursland
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What linking means when installing a Conda package
Package managers face a fundamental challenge: how to efficiently place files from a package cache into multiple environments without excessive disk usage or compromising isolation.
Wolf Vollprecht
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Virtual Packages in the Conda ecosystem
Virtual packages are a neat trick to inject system requirements into the SAT solver and resolve for compatible packages automatically. In this blog post we talk about how they are used in the Conda ecosystem to support complex cross-platform package distributions.
Wolf Vollprecht
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What is a Conda package, actually?
At its core, a conda package really is just a "glorified" tarball—a compressed archive of files with some metadata attached.
Wolf Vollprecht
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S3 support in Pixi and rattler-build
We're excited to announce S3 support across our entire toolchain – rattler, pixi, and rattler-build now support the most common cloud storage standard, thanks to contributions from our friends at QuantCo. This vendor-agnostic approach to distributing Conda packages represents a major step forward for the ecosystem, offering teams the flexibility to host packages on any S3-compatible provider (AWS, Cloudflare R2, Backblaze B2, Hetzner, and more) with built-in authentication and minimal vendor lock-in.
Wolf Vollprecht
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Less Boilerplate, More Logic: Parameterising Pixi Tasks
Introducing powerful extensions to the existing task system
Parsa Bahrami