Pixi wheels on PyPI?

[paugier]

Problem description

I realize that this seems a bit strange to ask for Pixi wheels on PyPI but wait. Note that UV is available on PyPI (https://pypi.org/project/uv).

For computers at work (on WIndows), we cannot install Pixi with the command given in the doc because of a program taking care about security. An administrator told me that something can be done but that it is complicated. So I don't know when and if I will be able to use the standard Pixi installation method. We have exactly the same issue for UV!

However, it is very easy to install UV since we can install python and pipx and UV can be installed simply with pipx install uv.

I guess it should be very simple for Pixi to also upload wheels on PyPI providing the Pixi command.

Writing this, I realize that I could also install Pixi with Miniforge, since I know that I can install conda/mamba. It would just be a bit simpler with pipx because python can be installed with the Microsoft Store. Moreover, one reason to get Pixi is potentially to avoid the Miniforge installation.

[ruben-arts]

Okay as a Friday afternoon project I tried this out.

I've tried using maturin which would make it really easy to compile our setup into a wheel. Then we could use the build artifacts of that to get the normal binary release.

I've tried hatch and that could also allow us to use a simple script to move the binary around.

Both result in a correctly installable version. The remaining questions I didn't get to answer is:

1. Are we going to uv route, use maturin and make the wheel build our main binary build and get the normal binaries from that run.
2. Extend our current setup with a simple hatch build hook to package a file into a wheel after it was build by cargo dist.

Leaving this here for when I have time for it again 👍

[paugier]

Nice Friday afternoon project 🙂 !