Pierre Lindenbaum
SpatialistsGRASS on Windows via conda: #GRASS, the veteran open-source geospatial computing platform, can now be installed on Windows (and all other major platforms) via #conda with no manual setup. This streamlines access to the latest GRASS functionality.
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2026/05/24-grass-on-windows-via-conda/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS
GRASS on Windows via conda – Spatialists – geospatial news
#GRASS, the veteran open-source geospatial computing platform, can now be installed on Windows (and all other major platforms) via #conda with no manual setup. This streamlines access to the latest GRASS functionality.
Kevin Brown-SilvaNow that the keynote is over, here are the open spaces that you can check out after the security update and the first talks after lunch. The job fair and poster sessions are also happening and I would recommend checking those out if you're interested.
Starting at 10:00 AM:
Room 102A: #Conda x #PyPI: Building Bridges That Actually Hold
Room 102B: Scroll Lock Zine
Room 102C: The Python Developers Survey: What Would YOU Ask?
Room 202C: Financial Data with Python
GRASSTry out GRASS for conda today!
#conda #python #geospatial #hydrology #gis #foss #osgeo #thatwaseasy
Jim Patterson 🇨🇦
Dan Neuman 🇨🇦I hadn't updated my development environment in a while, and my package manager (to download and ensure every module has the right dependent modules, if you aren't familiar with Python), Conda, was taking for ev errrrrr!! I had read about a newer manager, uv, written in Rust (the compiled language all the cool kids are talking about), so I figured it was time to try it.
Night and day. I downloaded and configured my entire development environment in about 30 seconds. It uses `pip` commands, though those are rewritten, too. I just gave it a file with a list of mandatory modules and it put in the latest versions, though I could also specify which ones I needed. Super simple.
(I'm trying putting the tags at the beginning of the post to make it easier for people who wouldn't be interested to scroll past. Let me know if this makes it worse for you.)
Christian MeestersRE: https://fediscience.org/@snakemake/116523521544819091
Software provenance with #Snakemake: Using the reporter plugin for nanopublications, we can now get slightly improved nanopublications like this one: https://w3id.org/np/RAmgzfta63xx0wWc_zzQVm7kwOc4tsEOA0JJJCfsiLL1g (press on the little blue arrow on the right to see the full details). Automatically captured for this workflow: https://w3id.org/np/RAjHDlPDghZzc9ZvQ3uJQNJ9Jd_KAYzZt7dk5PXKgjRyE - again expressed a nanopub declaration. 😉
It now supports to capture the "classic" software support for #Conda and Snakemake wrappers.
There is more work to do. Let's see when and if I get to it.
KaiXinI only realize today that the widely used #conda environment tools can only be used under #FreeBSD via the #Linux compact layer. For people not familiar with it, it is kind of like the #venv or #virtualenv tools, allowing multiple versions of #Python coexist. I used #conda, mainly #miniforge or #mambaforge because besides Python, conda also supports #R enrironments. I daily use R #ggplot2 figures generated from animal models and cellular experiments, as well as various #Bioinformatics tools. It is a shock to me conda does not natively support #BSD systems.
#RunBSD #Unix #Rstats
#RunBSD #Unix #Rstats
prefix.devYou can now register Pixi workspaces globally and access them through their name from anywhere in your shell!
From all our conda CLI lovers this was a big request!
Thank you Sophia Castellarin for the implementation!
Peter Bittner