UCL-ARC / UCL-ARC/python-tooling
See if it's possible to swap in `pixi` for `uv`
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Description
Which Section of the Documentation Needs Improving?
The instructions for using the template
What Can be Improved About This Section
At the workshop today, someone asked "why not using pixi instead of uv". It's a good question, and it might be posible to just swap every invocation of uv with pixi in our docs. It would be nice to see if this is possible, and if it is recommend it as another option, becaue especially for machine learning code there are several packages available on conda-forge that aren't on PyPI.
How to Improve This Section
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Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start with the template's documentation instructions and identify every invocation of uv. Check whether the equivalent workflow is supported by pixi, including the machine-learning packages mentioned as available on conda-forge. Done means documenting whether substitution is possible and, if appropriate, recommending pixi as an alternative.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- documentation
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100