[QGIS-Developer] using conda for development

[Ari Meyer]

Good to hear.  Thanks, Matthias!

On Mon, Aug 3, 2020 at 6:45 AM Matthias Kuhn <matthias at opengis.ch> wrote:

> Hi Alexandre
> On 8/3/20 9:55 AM, Alexandre Neto wrote:
>
> Hello Ari,
>
> A segunda, 3/08/2020, 06:51, Ari Meyer <ari.meyer at gmail.com> escreveu:
>
>>
>> I guess from Matthias' comments, though, your multi-platform build
>> requirements are beyond the scope of what conda can deliver?
>> Ari
>>
>
> I think that what Mathias said is that what we have now, without depending
> on others, just works. Moving to anything else, conda or not, would involve
> a huge amount of work. Besides, there will always be cross platform
> dependencies divergences anyway, whatever the system is used.
>
> Thanks for clarifying. I'd like to add that even if we will always have
> diverging dependencies, there is a lot of room for improvement. And we
> shouldn't take the impossible target as an excuse for making the gap
> smaller.
>
> It's also very nice to see all the evolution around conda I'm looking
> forward to the findings about pinning. One thing that I'd be interested in
> is knowing what it takes to setup our own version of conda forge (where we
> could possibly also install Qt from upstream packages to spare the
> troubles). Happy to discuss this further.
>
> Matthias
>
>
>
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