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Visualization-focused examples using HoloViz for specific topics
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Replace anaconda-project downloads #444

Open maximlt opened 1 day ago

maximlt commented 1 day ago

anaconda-project has a handy feature that allows to declare a series of files to download (and optionally unzip) when preparing a project (see https://anaconda-project.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user-guide/reference.html#file-downloads). Some day we will need to replace anaconda-project by another tool (e.g. conda-project, pixi) which, at the moment, don't provide this feature. To prepare this transition, we'll need to find an alternative way to download data.

Features we use:

Potential alternatives:

maximlt commented 1 day ago

Noting that the ability to download data while preparing the project/environment is useful for instance when an example is deployed. Otherwise, if an example requires a large dataset to be downloaded, the first user is going to have to wait a little too long :) No big deal but not great.