I've been using hashdist/hashstack as an alternative to conda, there was some talk of generating hashstack packages that could be uploaded to conda for redistribution. Also, I've got a 'stack' of packages to build tahoe-lafs repeatably and reliably -- https://github.com/hashdist/hashstack/pull/454
On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 8:47 PM, Dirk Loss <li...@dirk-loss.de> wrote: > Hello, > > has anyone thought about using Conda to build binary Tahoe-LAFS > packages, and maybe Binstar to host them? > > I guess this could be helpful especially for Windows users, because no > compilation is necessary, dependencies are resolved automatically, and > no admin privileges are needed for installation. > > http://conda.pydata.org/ (BSD-licensed) > https://binstar.org/ (free for public repos up to 3GB) > > Over the last months I've been happily using Conda to install and update > a stack of scientific Python libraries that have lots of complex C and > Fortran dependencies (Numpy, Matplotlib, Pandas, etc.). > From my point of view, Tahoe-LAFS seems not so different. > > Personally, I don't know anything about package building for Conda yet, > but from a user's point of view, it works like a charm. If I understand > it correctly, the difficulties of finding, building and updating all the > dependencies for a particular application can be solved centrally by a > competent developer -- just once per release, for all users. > > So in the future, I could imagine upcoming Tahoe-LAFS users just > downloading Miniconda from http://conda.pydata.org/miniconda.html, > running the executable and entering something like: > > conda install -c https://conda.binstar.org/leastauthority tahoe-lafs > > Any thoughts or comments? > > Best regards > Dirk > > > _______________________________________________ > tahoe-dev mailing list > tahoe-dev@tahoe-lafs.org > https://tahoe-lafs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev > -- http://www.sgenomics.org/~jtang/
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