Hi all,
I noticed a lot of users get stuck with trying Pixi and RoboStack, simply because it’s to hard to do the initial setup.
To help you out we’ve created a little tool called pixi-ros to help you map the package.xml’s to a pixi.toml.
It basically does what rosdep does, but since the logic of the rosdep installation doesn’t translate well to a Pixi workspace this was always complex to implement.
Instead of staying in waiting mode untill we figured out a “clean” way of doing that I just wanted to get something out that helps you get started today.
Here is a small video to get you started:
I’m very open to contributions or improvement ideas!
ps. I hope pixi-ros will be obsolete ASAP due to our development of pixi-build-ros which can read package.xml’s directly, but today (5-feb-2026) I would only advice that workflow to advanced users due to the experimental nature of it.