Hi Alex, Again, dynamite. Thanks for this. Please see my comments below.
On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 6:21 AM, <dev-digest-h...@climate.apache.org> wrote: > > From: "Goodman, Alexander (398K)" <alexander.good...@jpl.nasa.gov> > To: "dev@climate.apache.org" <dev@climate.apache.org> > Cc: > Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 12:25:43 -0700 > Subject: [ANNOUNCE] new ocw conda package! > Hi all, > > I am pleased to inform you all that we now have a prototype conda package > for OCW. If you have conda installed (if you don't, then you should!), > users may now install ocw to their ocw environment using > [snip] > If this proves to be effective then I think we should begin directing users > towards this installation method instead of Easy-OCW, since it is far more > platform agnostic and directly talks to conda, which is the main > installation method that's used for most of our dependencies already. Agreed! > Kyo > has already tested the examples using this installation method on a clean > OSX system, so we can comfortably say that this at least works for OCW > standalone / RCMES. > Cool, the testing sounds good so far. I'll also test it out and I will encourage all GSoC students to do the same. Thanks > > Very soon I will be committing the conda build recipes to the main repo, as > well as adding some more detailed instructions on how to maintain our conda > packages. I see you've implemented the documentation thanks. > For collaboration purposes, we have two options we should decide > on: > > 1) Use my existing anaconda channel (agoodman). To update any packages, we > may share a token amongst ourselves and then upload any changes directly. > For the next release there is no reason that we cannot keep it hosted in your account for the time being. For the next release we can possibly move it to an Apache channel if they have one. We will need to consult INFRA. > > 2) Create a new anaconda account / password combination that is shared > between all of us. The existing packages would need to be copied over. > Please see above. We can consult INFRA and see how far the foundation has got with this. > > In the meantime, feel free to test the package install out and let me know > which option of the two above you prefer. > > Thanks. Lewis
