Pixi workspaces with CadQuery

[lorenzncode]

The latest version of pixi highlights a new feature that should be useful working with multiple cadquery versions.

https://github.com/prefix-dev/pixi/releases/tag/v0.66.0

Now you can switch cadquery workspaces/versions from any location (without setting up bash aliases or similar).

After setting up multiple workspaces for cadquery say release 2.7.0, master, and dev branches activate any of them with:

pixi shell -w workspace-name 

Create release version workspace

pixi init cq270
pixi add cadquery=2.7.0
pixi workspace register

Now activate this workspace from any location:

pixi shell -w cq270

Create master version workspace

pixi init cqmaster
pixi workspace channel add --prepend cadquery
pixi add cadquery=master
pixi workspace register

Use cadquery master.

pixi shell -w cqmaster

Development workspace

From cadquery git:

git worktree add -b cqbranch1 ../cqbranch1

Create the workspace in cqbranch1 itself or another location.

pixi init
pixi workspace channel add --prepend cadquery
pixi add cadquery=master
pixi add --pypi --editable 'cadquery @ file:///absolute/path/to/cqbranch1'
pixi workspace register

Use the local branch.

pixi shell -w cqbranch1

Get list of registered workspaces

You can get the list of available names with:
pixi workspace register list

This is kind of long, I might create an alias for that.

[jmwright]

It seems like the broader Python community is moving towards uv (pip) and pixi (conda) as the standards. Is that what you are seeing too @lorenzncode ?

[lorenzncode]

I'm personally enjoying working with pixi. Yeah, I would expect adoption to increase.