OK with me, I’ve largely switched to condo/bioconda already.

Chris



> On 18 Oct 2018, at 13:14, rdkit-discuss-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote:
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> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2018 08:33:56 +0200
> From: Greg Landrum <greg.land...@gmail.com <mailto:greg.land...@gmail.com>>
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> Subject: [Rdkit-discuss] [Question] Ok to switch to conda-forge for
>       RDKit builds?
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> Dear all,
> 
> TL;DR: Now that RDKit builds are available on conda-forge, I would like to
> stop doing builds on the rdkit conda channel. I'm looking for feedback
> about that here.
> 
> Thanks to the persistence of Peter St John and Matt Swain, the RDKit is now
> available on conda-forge:
> https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/rdkit/files 
> <https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/rdkit/files>
> If you take a look, you'll find builds for Mac, Linux, and Windows together
> with multiple versions of Python. The build/deployment steps are all
> automated. It's really cool!
> 
> Given that these packages now exist, I don't see much value in continuing
> to also host standard RDKit builds in the rdkit conda channel. So I would
> propose that we switch to using conda-forge as the primary channel for
> doing RDKit builds/distributions. Having the automated process available
> would save me a lot of time and remove the chance for me to make a mistake
> while doing the builds.[1]
> If we go this way, I will update the documentation to point to conda-forge
> and will only do the occasional nightly or beta build in the rdkit conda
> channel.
> 
> Does anyone have any objections to this or see any problems that it might
> cause?
> 
> Many thanks to Matt and Peter for making the conda-forge builds happen!
> 
> -greg
> [1] As fun as these are, I think I can live without them. ;-)

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