Add recipe for Edward

[souravsingh]

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[conda-forge-linter]

Hi! This is the friendly automated conda-forge-linting service.

I just wanted to let you know that I linted all conda-recipes in your PR (recipes/edward) and found it was in an excellent condition.

[synapticarbors]

@dustinvtran -- are you ok being added as a co-maintainer of the edward recipe on conda-forge?

[dustinvtran]

yep, that's fine.

[synapticarbors]

license: Apache-2.0

[synapticarbors]

The license file isn't packaged in the source distribution due to a missing MANIFEST.in. Please manually package the license and raise an issue or PR (put url in a comment in the recipe for the issue):

https://conda-forge.org/docs/meta.html#packaging-the-license-manually

[synapticarbors]

I don't think numpy or six is required for the build as the recipe is using --single-version-externally-managed

[synapticarbors]

The license_file line is incorrect. It should be:

license_file: '{{ environ["RECIPE_DIR"] }}/LICENSE'

[souravsingh]

My bad, I thought RECIPE_DIR is a placeholder where you will replace it with your variable according to your recipe.

[synapticarbors]

@souravsingh I think once you fix the issue that is causing this to fail (which I describe in a different comment), this should be good to merge.

[synapticarbors]

Somehow I totally missed that you didn't copy the license into the recipes/edward directory in this PR. You need to copy it (https://github.com/blei-lab/edward/blob/master/LICENSE.txt) along side of the meta.yaml. I would name it LICENSE.txt to match the upstream repo and then change the line in the meta.yaml to match.

[djsutherland]

Just to put a note here: the build error is the same problem as conda-forge/tensorflow-feedstock#19.

The keras recipe can luckily use the theano backend rather than tensorflow for testing on Linux. Edward doesn't have that option. So being able to build and test Edward on conda-forge's infrastructure is probably going to depend on conda-forge building tensorflow from source (conda-forge/tensorflow-feedstock#6).

Another issue is that Edward absolutely does depend on tensorflow being installed (e.g. here in edward.__init__), but doesn't specify an explicit tensorflow dependency because of the gross tensorflow / tensorflow-gpu split. Resolving that so the conda-forge package can properly depend on tensorflow might also need some work.

[stale]

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[stale]

Hi again! About a month ago, we commented on this PR saying it would be closed in another month if it was still inactive. It has been a month and so now it is being closed. Thank you so much for making it in the first place and contributing to the community project that is conda-forge. If you'd like to reopen this PR, please feel free to do so at any time!

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