ENH: Create a conda package

[remi-braun]

Hello,

First of all, nice lib that solved some troubles 😄

However, could you create a conda package in order to allow other packages to use methodtools through conda ? (via conda forge for example)

Thanks a lot !

[youknowone]

Hello,

I thought pypi packaging is enough for python packages.

I never used conda myself, so I don't know well about them. Is there any problem to use pypi package from conda environment?

[remi-braun]

The problem is that you cannot create a conda package that includes methodtools by default.

And it is not recommended to mix installing libs via conda and pip, it should be either one or the other

[remi-braun]

Just to precise what I meant, here is a thread where it is specified you cannot create a conda package with pip-only dependencies:
conda/conda-build#548 (comment)

You can, however, create a conda environment mixing the to packaging ways, but this is not really user-friendly 😄

[rdgraham]

Just wondering if there is any progress on this. Looks like a good tool but without a conda package I will need to find another solution.

[youknowone]

Thanks all. I now understand the situation.

After reseraching how to manage conda package, I found it does not necessarily need to be managed by myself - it didn't have ownerships for packages but anyone can submit recipes. Because I didn't use conda for myself ever, I don't think I can manage the conda recipes for this package well.

Instead, I am opened to anyone who will create conda package for this project. And I will do my best support for anyone who will do it, but I will not create and manage recipes myself. Please contact me anyone needs any help for that.

[remi-braun]

If I'm not mistaken, your lib is using another package of yours called wirerope which doesn't have a conda package either.
If so, the package should also be created for it.
Is there any other dependency behind this one ?

[youknowone]

You are right. methodtools is very small, single file library wrapping wirerope. It only has one dependency.

wirerope depends on a few compatibility tools. six is very common, so it will not be a problem. To support Python2, it additionally requires inspect2 and singledispatch.
https://github.com/youknowone/wirerope/blob/master/setup.cfg

[timkpaine]

im doing it here: conda-forge/staged-recipes#18907

[remi-braun]

im doing it here: conda-forge/staged-recipes#18907

Real heroes don't wear capes!
I can take it away from my personal todolist thanks to you 🙏

[timkpaine]

This issue can be closed now https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/methodtools

[youknowone]

Thank you! this is great!