mamba
is a reimplementation of the conda package manager in C++.
mamba
are implemented in C++ for maximum efficiencyAt the same time, mamba
utilizes the same command line parser, package installation and deinstallation code and transaction verification routines as conda
to stay as compatible as possible.
mamba
is part of the conda-forge ecosystem, which also consists of quetz
, an open source conda
package server.
You can read our announcement blog post.
micromamba
is the statically linked version of mamba
.
It can be installed as a standalone executable without any dependencies, making it a perfect fit for CI/CD pipelines and containerized environments.
See the documentation on micromamba
for details.
mamba
has to be preferred when:
libmambapy
or libmamba
is used by other software in the same environment.micromamba
has to be preferred when:
Please refer to the mamba and micromamba installation guide in the documentation.
Additional features in Mamba and Micromambamamba
and micromamba
come with features on top of stock conda
.
To efficiently query repositories and query package dependencies you can use mamba repoquery
or micromamba repoquery
.
See the repoquery documentation for details.
micromamba
can be used to install lock files generated by conda-lock without having to install conda-lock
.
Simply invoke micromamba create
with the -f
option, providing an environment lockfile whose name ends with -lock.yml
or -lock.yaml
; for instance:
micromamba create -n my-env -f conda-lock.ymlsetup-micromamba (setup-miniconda replacement)
setup-micromamba is a replacement for setup-miniconda that uses micromamba
.
It can significantly reduce your CI setup time by:
micromamba
, which takes around 1 s to install.conda
environments.While mamba
and micromamba
are generally a drop-in replacement for conda
there are some differences:
mamba
and micromamba
normalize MatchSpec
strings to the simplest form, whereas conda
use a more verbose form This can lead to slight differences in the output of conda env export
and mamba env export
.Please refer to the instructions given by the official documentation.
The Mamba project uses semantic versioning of the form MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH
. While we try to keep things stable for users, we also need to make breaking changes to improve Mamba and reduce technical debt. Future versions of Mamba may give stronger guarantees.
We are not aware of consumers of the C++ API, so we give ourselves room for improvements. For libmamba
, the term backward compatible is understood as follows:
detail
sub-namespaces. The observed behavior will be the same, except for bugs (disappearing, hopefully) and performance. When declarations are deprecated but not removed and still functional, we consider it also backward compatible, as only the observed behavior during compilation changes.With this in mind, libmamba
offers the following guarantees:
PATCH
releases are API and ABI backward compatible;MINOR
releases are API compatible for declarations in mamba/api
, They can break API elsewhere and ABI anywhere;MAJOR
releases make no guarantees.For libmambapy
, the term API backward compatible implies that your Python code will work the same for a newer version of libmambapy
as long as you did not use any declaration understood to be private, for instance accessed with a name starting with an _
. The observed behavior will be the same, except for bugs (disappearing, hopefully) and performance. When declarations are deprecated but not removed and still functional, we consider it also backward compatible, as the behavior is only observable when activating Python DeprecationWarning
, which is usually only activated in development.
With this in mind, libmambapy
offers the following guarantees:
PATCH
releases are API backward compatible;MINOR
releases are API backward compatible;MAJOR
releases make no guarantees.mamba
and micromamba
(executables)
For executables, the term backward compatible applies to programmable inputs and outputs and means that your code (including shell scripts) will work with newer versions of the executable without modifications. Programmable inputs/outputs include executable name, command line arguments, configuration files, environment variables, JSON command line outputs, and files created. It excludes human-readable output and error messages, and thus deprecation warnings written in the human-readable output.
With this in mind, mamba
and micromamba
offer the following guarantees:
PATCH
releases are backward compatible;MINOR
releases are backward compatible;MAJOR
releases make no guarantees.Only mamba
and micromamba
2.0 and later are supported and are actively developed.
The 1.x
branch is only maintained for addressing security issues such as CVEs.
For questions, you can also join us on the QuantStack Chat or on the Conda channel (note that this project is not officially affiliated with conda
or Anaconda Inc.).
We use a shared copyright model that enables all contributors to maintain the copyright on their contributions.
This software is licensed under the BSD-3-Clause license. See the LICENSE file for details.
We have videoconference meetings every two weeks where we discuss what we have been working on and get feedback from one another.
Anyone is welcome to attend, if they would like to discuss a topic or just listen in.
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