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Conda Enhancement Proposals
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Technical specification for creation, modification and deletion of conda environments #29

Open jaimergp opened 2 years ago

jaimergp commented 2 years ago

From the abstract:

Conda environments have existed for more than 10 years. During most of that time, conda was the only tool available to create, modify and delete conda environments. As a result, once the Python implementation was considered stable enough, its integration test suite could be regarded as the only technical specification needed for practical purposes.

However, as other tools appeared in the ecosystem (namely mamba and micromamba, along with the libmamba-based solver), some of the tests contained in the integration suite did not adjust to the ecosystem expectations (tests too strict, too tied to conda implementation details, ambiguous results, conflicting outcomes across different tests, etc).

In this CEP, we'd like to propose a minimum set of guidelines any software implementation that operates on conda environments should adhere to.