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Stop recommending Anaconda #92

Open eerovaher opened 2 months ago

eerovaher commented 2 months ago

Currently we are recommending students to use Anaconda. Although Anaconda is (at the moment) free to use for educational purposes, using Anaconda in large organizations normally requires buying a license.. We should prefer FOSS tools (to avoid vendor lock-in etc.). The least disruptive change would be to recommend Miniconda with the conda-forge channel. The best instructions for doing that that I know of are in the sunpy documentation. But next year we should consider recommending uv, if that project is in a good enough state.

AlinderS commented 2 months ago

I agree (at least in principle) with this. Another reason not to use Anaconda is that it is simply not very good at doing its job. With consideration of my workload, my suggestion is to rewrite the guide.md page to recommend uv instead of Anaconda sometime between the end of the current course and the beginning of next year's course. We should also create and provide a requirements file so the students can run uv pip sync requirements.txt and have all the libraries they will need. It is not at all clear that I will be actively involved with this course next year, so I can try to get this done during the fall.