Dave Hirschfeld

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I think this exposes a fundamental schism between software engineers and scientific development which IME is exploratory, REPL-driven development, NOT project based development. It is simultaneously true that: 1. Notebooks...

It sounds great to me & I'm keen to test it out!

> I am not sure whether this question belongs to the repo, but I would like to ask how this feature would interact with pixi jupyter kernel? I just write...

I think implementing `global install` as an ordinary `pixi` project with added magic of exposing the binaries/entry-points is a good concept that should allow reusing existing functionality. Things I'd like:...

Do binaries from a project need to be exposed globally? Wouldn't `pixi run ` work just fine?

Just a data point - I tried to use [`copier`](https://github.com/copier-org/copier) as a `pixi global` app but it didn't work as I also need `copier_templates_extensions` installed in the same environment.

I realise `urllib3` is pinned: https://github.com/cloudsmith-io/cloudsmith-cli/blob/e4b76fee52ae3de72f31b1f9d466983af0bb6dc8/setup.py#L59 So this is actually a `pip` bug in that it let me install into my venv without downgrading `urllib3`. Nevertheless, pinning to a 2-year...

> The best I found so far is to reuse previous prompt by pressing up. Thanks, I did not know you could do that!

That's the gist of my ask here: [^1] - https://github.com/prefix-dev/pixi/issues/3179#issuecomment-2680135776 Happy to close that in favour of tracking the request here. [^1]: TBF the title of the issue was terrible,...

> Also now that I'm rereading your comment maybe we should also document how the mapping is used in the first place! This might also help convince corporate IT of...