ENH Support installing with conda

[drewejohnson]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Many users are using conda as their package manager to install e.g., numpy, scipy, pandas, etc. We should support this, such that users can install with conda install -c conda-forge serpentTools (maybe with a different channel?)

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pip install is fine, but then you often need to be managing two package managers: pip and conda, which is not always fun.

Additional context

Some (hopefully) useful links

• https://conda-forge.org/
• https://github.com/conda-forge/staged-recipes
• https://github.com/idaholab/moose/tree/next/conda
• https://github.com/conda-forge/openmc-feedstock

[drewejohnson]

@DanKotlyar I think we should provide this functionality, and I'm happy to be a maintainer for it - https://conda-forge.org/docs/maintainer/adding_pkgs.html#maintainer-role

Do you think this is worthwhile? And would you and/or someone in the lab be open to being co-maintainers of the conda recipe with me?

[DanKotlyar]

Hi Drew, I will read through it and reply a bit later. Thanks, Dan From: Andrew Johnson ***@***.***> Sent: Sunday, August 13, 2023 12:21 AM To: CORE-GATECH-GROUP/serpent-tools ***@***.***> Cc: Kotlyar, Dan ***@***.***>; Mention ***@***.***> Subject: Re: [CORE-GATECH-GROUP/serpent-tools] ENH Support installing with conda (Issue #494) @DanKotlyar<https://github.com/DanKotlyar> I think we should provide this functionality, and I'm happy to be a maintainer for it - https://conda-forge.org/docs/maintainer/adding_pkgs.html#maintainer-role Do you think this is worthwhile? And would you and/or someone in the lab be open to being co-maintainers of the conda recipe with me? — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub<#494 (comment)>, or unsubscribe<https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AGLDW757XXHAFNGOXHHBGADXVBI2HANCNFSM6AAAAAA3HVB274>. You are receiving this because you were mentioned.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[drewejohnson]

@DanKotlyar I'm still interested in moving forward on this and acting as a maintainer. Have you given it any thought?

[DanKotlyar]

@drewejohnson Should I change your role to have the ability to maintain the code?

[DanKotlyar]

@drewejohnson I just added you as the maintainer.

[drewejohnson]

Staged recipe is up - conda-forge/staged-recipes#25751

[DanKotlyar]

Thanks!