<div dir="ltr">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 -- <a href="https://github.com/hashdist/hashstack/pull/454">https://github.com/hashdist/hashstack/pull/454</a></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 8:47 PM, Dirk Loss <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lists@dirk-loss.de" target="_blank">lists@dirk-loss.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello,<br>
<br>
has anyone thought about using Conda to build binary Tahoe-LAFS<br>
packages, and maybe Binstar to host them?<br>
<br>
I guess this could be helpful especially for Windows users, because no<br>
compilation is necessary, dependencies are resolved automatically, and<br>
no admin privileges are needed for installation.<br>
<br>
<a href="http://conda.pydata.org/" target="_blank">http://conda.pydata.org/</a> (BSD-licensed)<br>
<a href="https://binstar.org/" target="_blank">https://binstar.org/</a> (free for public repos up to 3GB)<br>
<br>
Over the last months I've been happily using Conda to install and update<br>
a stack of scientific Python libraries that have lots of complex C and<br>
Fortran dependencies (Numpy, Matplotlib, Pandas, etc.).<br>
>From my point of view, Tahoe-LAFS seems not so different.<br>
<br>
Personally, I don't know anything about package building for Conda yet,<br>
but from a user's point of view, it works like a charm. If I understand<br>
it correctly, the difficulties of finding, building and updating all the<br>
dependencies for a particular application can be solved centrally by a<br>
competent developer -- just once per release, for all users.<br>
<br>
So in the future, I could imagine upcoming Tahoe-LAFS users just<br>
downloading Miniconda from <a href="http://conda.pydata.org/miniconda.html" target="_blank">http://conda.pydata.org/miniconda.html</a>,<br>
running the executable and entering something like:<br>
<br>
conda install -c <a href="https://conda.binstar.org/leastauthority" target="_blank">https://conda.binstar.org/leastauthority</a> tahoe-lafs<br>
<br>
Any thoughts or comments?<br>
<br>
Best regards<br>
Dirk<br>
<br>
<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.sgenomics.org/~jtang/" target="_blank">http://www.sgenomics.org/~jtang/</a></div>
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