<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 5:34 PM, Wes Turner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wes.turner@gmail.com" target="_blank">wes.turner@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="gmail-"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>Chances are, there will be a package or two that you rely on that is not in conda defaults (maintained by Continuum) or currently in conda-forge. So you can pip-install those few -- but what if they aren't on PyPi either? or are hard to compile and install with ugly dependencies? You can contribute build recipes to conda-forge, and then have it for you, and all your users, and the rest of the world to access. Much better than hand maintaining stuff yourself.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>Someone still needs to commit to maintaining the conda package; otherwise who knows whether this is the latest stable release?</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Indeed. and it it's a not-that-widely-used package, then you will have to do that yourself -- but using the conda-forge infrastructure makes that (relatively) easy. In contrast -- who knows whether the package on PyPi is the latest stable release? Hopefully the maintainer is keeping it up, but if not, you're kinda dead in the water.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="gmail-"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><br></div><div>My pain point now is still full multi-platform support. conda has package versions that are platform independent, but it can still be hard to get everything built in the same version on all platforms, so it does get a bit ugly.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>Docker images are reproducible and archivable:</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>In a way Docker, as I understand it, is orthogonal to this conversation. And when I talk about "all platforms", I mean running natively on all platforms -- I can't give my Windows users a Linux VM and expect them to know what the heck to do with it.</div><div><br></div><div>Not that Docker isn't a really useful tool to htlep address some of these problems...</div><div><br></div><div>-CHB</div><div> <br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>What platforms does conda-forge auto-build for?<br></div><div>- [x] x86[-64]</div></blockquote><div><br> linux-64 <br> win-32 <br> win-64 <br> osx-64 <br></div><div><br></div><div>(all Intel)</div><div><br></div><div> </div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>- [ ] linux-armv7l</div><div> - <a href="https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge.github.io/issues/269" target="_blank">https://github.com/conda-<wbr>forge/conda-forge.github.io/<wbr>issues/269</a></div>
</blockquote></div><br><br>looks like folks are trying, but it's not really there yet -- mostly due to the lack of easy to access CI services for armv7I</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">It's an open-source project -- if it's important to someone, it will get done.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">-CHB</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><br>Christopher Barker, Ph.D.<br>Oceanographer<br><br>Emergency Response Division<br>NOAA/NOS/OR&R (206) 526-6959 voice<br>7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax<br>Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception<br><br><a href="mailto:Chris.Barker@noaa.gov" target="_blank">Chris.Barker@noaa.gov</a></div>
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