sort output from pixi global list

[dhirschfeld]

Problem description

The output of pixi global list is unsorted making it more difficult to find the package you're interested in.

e.g.

❯ pixi global list
Global install location: ~/.pixi
├── ghostscript 10.03.0
|   └─ exec: pdf2dsc, ps2pdf14, lprsetup, gsdj, dvipdf, eps2eps, ps2epsi, ps2pdf13, gslj, gs, gsdj500, pfbtopfa, printafm, ps2ascii, gsnd, pf2afm, ps2pdf12, pdf2ps, ps2pdfwr, ps2ps2, unix-lpr, gsbj, pphs, ps2pdf, gslp, ps2ps
├── starship 1.18.2
|   └─ exec: starship
├── ripgrep 14.1.0
|   └─ exec: rg
├── skopeo 1.15.0
|   └─ exec: skopeo
├── fd-find 10.1.0
|   └─ exec: fd
├── uv 0.1.42
|   └─ exec: uv
├── kubernetes-helm 3.14.4
|   └─ exec: helm
├── awscli 2.15.47
|   └─ exec: aws_completer, aws.cmd, aws_zsh_completer, aws, aws_bash_completer
├── gh 2.49.1
|   └─ exec: gh
├── toolong 1.5.0
|   └─ exec: tl
├── eza 0.18.15
|   └─ exec: eza
├── go 1.22.3
|   └─ exec: go, gofmt
├── databricks-cli 0.219.0
|   └─ exec: databricks
├── kubernetes-client 1.30.0
|   └─ exec: kubectl, kubectl-convert
├── pgcli 4.0.1
|   └─ exec: pgcli
├── micromamba 1.5.8
|   └─ exec: micromamba
├── git-delta 0.17.0
|   └─ exec: delta
└── bat 0.24.0
    └─ exec: bat

[dhirschfeld]

This looks to be the offending function:

pixi/src/cli/global/list.rs

Lines 136 to 158 in fad669b

	/// List all globally installed packages
	///
	/// # Returns
	///
	/// A list of all globally installed packages represented as [`PackageName`]s
	pub(super) async fn list_global_packages() -> miette::Result<Vec<PackageName>> {
	let mut packages = vec![];
	let bin_env_dir =
	bin_env_dir().ok_or(miette::miette!("Could not determine global envs directory"))?;
	let Ok(mut dir_contents) = tokio::fs::read_dir(bin_env_dir).await else {
	return Ok(vec![]);
	};
	while let Some(entry) = dir_contents.next_entry().await.into_diagnostic()? {
	if entry.file_type().await.into_diagnostic()?.is_dir() {
	if let Ok(name) = PackageName::from_str(entry.file_name().to_string_lossy().as_ref()) {
	packages.push(name);
	}
	}
	}
	Ok(packages)
	}

[dhirschfeld]

I've never written any Rust code, but ChatGPT suggests the below may work?

diff --git a/src/cli/global/list.rs b/src/cli/global/list.rs
index f690552..a2e294e 100644
--- a/src/cli/global/list.rs
+++ b/src/cli/global/list.rs
@@ -154,5 +154,6 @@ pub(super) async fn list_global_packages() -> miette::Result<Vec<PackageName>> {
         }
     }
 
+    packages.sort();
     Ok(packages)
 }

...I guess, assuming PackageNames are sortable 😅