[EN] Managing Packages with Pixi - Raniere de Silva and Wolf Vollprecht

About this episode

In this episode, Peter Schmidt discusses the new open source package manager Pixi with guests Raniere de Silva and Wolf Vollprecht.

English Edition: there is a (relatively) new kid on the block - of open source package managers. It's called Pixi: and in this episode I talk to Raniere de Silva (GESIS) and Wolf Vollprecht (Prefix - the company behind Pixi), what the tool brings to the table. Links: https://prefix.dev/ the open source company making pixi availablehttps://pixi.prefix.dev/latest/ the package managerhttps://github.com/prefix-dev/pixihttps://mamba.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ mamba package manager G...

People in this episode

Host: Peter Schmidt

Guests: Raniere de Silva, Wolf Vollprecht

Topics covered

• open source
• package management
• technology
• software tools
• interview

Keywords

• Pixi
• package manager
• open source
• Raniere de Silva
• Wolf Vollprecht
• technology
• software

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: GESIS, Prefix, mamba

Products: Pixi

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