PyPI dependencies that will not install

[tdejager]

I've upgraded this comment int a seperate issue so we can track it a bit easier.

Taken from issue: #771

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@tdejager I wrote a simple script to test which PyPI packages cannot be managed by pixi. I have only tested a few packages I use. Here is the results from workflow run:

Results

Package	pip	pixi	uv
confz	✅	✅	✅
dvc	✅	❌	✅
dvclive	✅	❌	✅
icecream	✅	✅	✅
jax	✅	❌	✅
jax[cuda12]	✅	❌	✅
matplotlib	✅	✅	✅
meshio[all]	✅	❌	✅
meshpy	✅	✅	✅
meshtaichi-patcher	✅	✅	✅
mkdocs	✅	✅	✅
mkdocs-material	✅	✅	✅
mkdocstrings[python]	✅	✅	✅
numpy	✅	✅	✅
pymeshfix	✅	✅	✅
pyright	✅	✅	✅
pytest	✅	✅	✅
pytest-benchmark	✅	✅	✅
pyvista	✅	✅	✅
ruff	✅	✅	✅
scipy	✅	❌	✅
sparse	✅	❌	❌
taichi	✅	❌	✅
trimesh[all]	✅	❌	✅
typeguard	✅	✅	✅

I also noticed that pixi tends to build from source distributions rather than using built distributions. If the PyPI package does not provide source distributions, it cannot be installed (e.g. gmsh, jaxlib). I guess this is because pixi fails to resolve built distributions correctly.

Originally posted by @liblaf in https://github.com/prefix-dev/pixi/issues/771#issuecomment-2312340227

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[tdejager]

I've just tested dvc and that seemed to work, any chance we could get some output to compare errors for those failures?

[liblaf]

We can download logs from workflow artifacts.

For sparse:

• Dependencies resolved by pip are: sparse-0.15.4 <-- numba-0.60.0 <-- llvmlite-0.43.0
• Dependencies resolved by pixi or uv are: sparse-0.15.4 <-- numba-0.51.2 <-- llvmlite-0.34.0
• llvmlite-0.34.0 does not provide built distribution for python 3.12. Building llvmlite from source requires llvm installed, thus raising an error during installation.

[tdejager]

I think we are running a wheel test for most of these that should be succeeding now :)