[QGIS-Developer] using conda for development

[Greg Troxel]

Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com> writes:

> There's a related proposal at
> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/179 --
> probably best to keep the discussion on that page.

Not really about the details of using conda but about the concept:

  conda's documentation says it runs on "Windows, macOS and Linux" but
  qgis also runs on at least NetBSD and almost certainly other BSDs.

  it seems that to build something, including qgis the requirement is
  that the things it depends on are present in some way that is found by
  the build.  People can choose to do that however they want, and it
  seems funny to me to impose a requirement.   If this is really "let's
  publish a conda config file so that people who want to do that can do
  less work", that's of course fine, but if it's more "if you don't have
  conda then you can't build qgis", that's something else.