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Announces conda-workspaces 0.4.0 and explains the workspace model (TOML manifest, named environments composed from features, multi-platform conda.lock, and built-in task runner) by reusing pixi's manifest schema on top of conda's existing solver, package cache, and channel authentication. Also enables Prism syntax highlighting site-wide for toml, yaml, bash, diff, and json so the new post (and future ones) render code blocks correctly without language-specific overrides.
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Replace the `context._subdir` mechanic with what it achieves: conda is pointed at the target platform so the right repodata is fetched and the matching `__linux` / `__osx` / `__win` virtual packages are reported, making a cross-platform lock see the same world the target machine would.
Drops "genuinely good" (an empty intensifier flagged in AI-detection guides), removes the anthropomorphic "the polite one" framing of the pyproject-toml exporter in favour of a plain conditional, and replaces the PM-jargon "long pole" with "bottleneck" in the CI-split section. No content changes.
Open with the lived experience of a maturing conda project (concrete tools: environment.yml, Makefile/tox.ini, conda-lock) and name the gap in one sentence: conda underneath, but conda itself never sees the project the pieces belong to. The change paragraph stays concept-first (what a workspace is, what the manifest declares, conda CLI drives it, conda underneath is unchanged) and drops the mid-paragraph mechanics about .conda/envs/ and install writing conda.lock, which are already covered in the dedicated feature sections later.
Drop dismissive "bolted on" framing of conda-lock and Makefile/tox. Describe a typical conda project's moving pieces, name the existing good tools respectfully, and position conda-workspaces as the layer above them rather than as a fix for something broken.
Replace the unsupported "typical conda project has these tools" claim with a two-paragraph intro that opens on Dan Yeaw's vision post and credits pixi as the source of the workspace model. Move the vision link above the truncate so it shows on the index and RSS. Trim the "Isn't that what pixi is for?" section opener so it doesn't restate the credit the intro now gives.
Aligns with the conda CLI vision post's endorsement of conda-workspaces as the future of environment management.
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Summary
conda.lock, built-in task runner) layered on conda's existing solver, package cache, and channel auth.toml,yaml,bash,diff, andjsonso the post (and future ones) render code blocks correctly.Contents
.conda/envs/vs.pixi/envs/).conda workspace/conda task/conda workspace quickstartflow.conda-pypiandconda-rattler-solver), multi-platformconda.lock, CI-split locking with--merge, cross-format export/import, and the task runner.conda/mamba/micromamba/pixi global) and a "what it doesn't do" section against pixi.conda-workspacesdocs pages and the fourcoming-from/*migration tutorials.Test plan
npm run startrenders the post (images, mermaid, syntax highlighting, tabs, admonitions).npm run buildsucceeds with no new warnings.conda-workspaces 0.4.0conda-forge release.Notes
2026-04-27is a placeholder; happy to bump if review/release slips.additionalLanguagesindocusaurus.config.jsis broadly useful and not specific to this post; can be split out if reviewers prefer.