we're drifting a bit from the purpose of this thread, so I will give quick
answers:

On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 6:00 PM Eric Jonas <jo...@ericjonas.com> wrote:

> Does being in conda-forge mean the package will eventually make it to the
> mainline conda repo?
>

I doubt it, but that's not a question I can really ansewr.


> I just have memories (admittedly from when dinosaurs walked the earth) of
> upgrading a package from rpmforge and having it brick my Linux machine. And
> I still sometimes see a conda-forge install change a bunch of packages I
> don't want it to and (as a result) break a ton of pickled results. But if
> you can control the dependencies then it might be ok ?
>

I have no doubt that it's possible to trash your current environment with
an update if you don't pay attention. Fortunately, that is just one
environment and they are pretty easy to "backup" and "restore" by means of
yaml files if that's important to you.


> Would there also be a pip install option ? Building from GitHub master
> is... Challenging.
>

This is potentially a can of worms. I'd be happy to answer/discuss this in
a separate thread if someone starts one.

-greg
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