2022-04-13 Conda Community Meeting

Attendees

Name	Initials	Affiliation	GH Username
Dave Clements	DPC	Anaconda	tnabtaf
Cheng H. Lee	CHL	Anaconda	chenghlee
Matthew R Becker	MRB	cf	beckermr
Kartik Raj	KR	Python VSCode	karrtikr
Filipe Fernandes	FF
Bianca Henderson	BH	Anaconda	beeankha
Katherine Kinnaman	KK	Anaconda	kathatherine
John Kirkham	JK	NVIDIA/cf	jakirkham
Mike McCarty	MM	NVIDIA	mmccarty
Sebastien Awwad	SA	Anaconda	awwad
Marcelo Duarte Trevisani	MDT	conda-forge	marcelotrevisani

19 people present

(CHL/JK) Stopping noarch: python builds on Anaconda defaults
- Conflates architecture- and interpreter-version independece
- Various kludges to get noarch working with arch-sensitive components
- Expect further discussions as we iterate on the recipe, dependency spec format
(KR) Discuss state of Python ext VSCode and conda
- https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/70248
- Is conda activate always necessary? Is a shell always necessary? - Probably, yes (de-facto API). Without it, environment setup would likely not work correctly.
- Details about activation in release notes here: https://github.com/conda/conda/releases/tag/4.4.0
(JK) test/commands & run_test.* currently exclusive (unintended?)
- https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge.github.io/issues/1490
- https://github.com/conda/conda-build/issues/4427
(JK) Transitive dependencies
- https://github.com/conda/conda-build/issues/3308
(JK) Setuptools deprecation affecting load_setup_py_data
- https://github.com/conda/conda-build/issues/4428
- Also impacts grayskull
- We need to track down the PEP announcing this change
(CHL) Propose some topic for PyCon Packaging Summit?
- Specifying external library dependencies (brought up previously)
- how to deal with install requirements

Various parts of the conda community gather on a regular basis. This meeting brings together all of these sub-communities for a community wide call.