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jupyter-xeus / xeus-octave

Jupyter kernel for GNU Octave
https://xeus-octave.readthedocs.io/
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Add devcontainer configuration for easy setup of the workspace #71

Closed rapgenic closed 2 years ago

rapgenic commented 2 years ago

I always have a lot of problems setting up conda (other than hating the idea of "polluting" my home folder/system with other packages...), and I'm quite used to devcontainers as a way to have a common and stable development environment across computers or even developers (if you are interested :-)

This adds a simple configuration for a devcontainer environment, which inherits the micromamba devcontainer image (https://github.com/mamba-org/micromamba-devcontainer), and installs all the packages specified in the environment-dev.yml file, along with a few sane vscode defaults. This image uses micromamba and not conda, which I find to be much faster and much lighter on my disk space.

If you want to try it you need to run .binder/postBuild before running jupyter to use xvfb

AntoinePrv commented 2 years ago

Yes, micromamba is much nicer to use. I use it on my computer, it's easy to set up, has no base environment. I set CONDA_PKGS_DIRS and CONDA_ENVS_PATH to control where the data is stored.