On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 11:12 AM, Jonathan Helmus <jjhel...@gmail.com> wrote:
> it sounds like a tool that is capable of converting between conda > packages and wheel files converting from a wheel to a conda package should be very doable (and may already be done). But the other way around is not -- conda packages can hold a superset of what wheels can hold -- i.e. stuff outside of python. Now that I think about it, it may seem kludgy, but conda packages can be built from wheel right now, with no special tools. A conda recipe that simply installs a wheel in it's build script would do just that. I'm still a bit confused about the role of wheel here. Why build a wheel, jsut so you can go install it, rather than simply install the package directly? I'm not sure it matters in this context, but I don't get the point. Though now that I think about it, that's exactly what conda does -- if you want to install a package from a conda build recipe -- you build a conda package, and then install that. That may be required to support some stuff conda supports -- for instance, conda install can re-write paths to shared libs, for instance. -Chris -- Christopher Barker, Ph.D. Oceanographer Emergency Response Division NOAA/NOS/OR&R (206) 526-6959 voice 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception chris.bar...@noaa.gov
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