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conda-forge / miktex-feedstock

A conda-smithy repository for miktex.
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Use a C based wrapper and update to latest (portable) miktex version #8

Closed jankatins closed 7 years ago

jankatins commented 8 years ago

Wrapper stolen from the r launcher in https://github.com/conda/conda-recipes/blob/master/r-base/launcher.c

Closes: https://github.com/conda-forge/miktex-feedstock/issues/10

conda-forge-linter commented 8 years ago

Hi! This is the friendly automated conda-forge-linting service.

I just wanted to let you know that I linted all conda-recipes in your PR (recipe) and found it was in an excellent condition.

jankatins commented 8 years ago

Ok, version using cl.exe from VS is currently building here...

jankatins commented 8 years ago

gcc: 24kb cl.exe: 124kb

:-(

mingwandroid commented 8 years ago

I didn't realize we had a miktex package. Interesting! I'll look at the changes later tonight.

mingwandroid commented 8 years ago

@janschulz : Yes, I'd prefer to move the m2- (and m2w64-) packages to conda-forge. But it's a matter of time, a resource I've got very little of at present. However if someone wants to move towards getting them on there then I'll happily assist.

Other than reformatting the recipes, setting a repo up for each and kicking off builds, the other thing that needs doing is to merge the pretty messy python script I wrote to generate conda-recipes from MSYS2 packages into conda skeleton. I also need to know how to use conda-forge a bit better and figure out how the special nature of the m2* packages fits into the infrastructure [1].

We keep meaning to talk about MSYS2 at the conda-forge hangout meetings, and I'm not sure if it's in-scope for the toolchain meeting tomorrow.

Until then, you should add msys2 to your .condarc or specify it on the command line as -c msys2

[1] There's a special msys2-conda-epoch metapackage to enforce lock-step updating to ensure binary compatibility due to the rolling nature of the upstream MSYS2 distro.

ivoflipse commented 8 years ago

Would this compile faster, because the current version took almost 5 minutes at install time, which almost defeats the purpose of using conda here?

jankatins commented 8 years ago

You mean the actual install of the package? -> the compile step happens on appveyor. I have the feeling that this depends in the number of files in the package :-(

jankatins commented 7 years ago

And it builds :-)