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mhallsmoore / qstrader

QuantStart.com - QSTrader backtesting simulation engine.
https://www.quantstart.com/qstrader/
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Create conda package #356

Closed zzhengnan closed 3 years ago

zzhengnan commented 3 years ago

@mhallsmoore Hi Michael. Would there be interest in creating a conda package for qstrader to serve as an alternative method of installation besides pip?

The robustness of conda's dependency management could help with installation issues faced especially by Windows users, which is emerging as a theme based on a cursory look at the issue log.

Separately, the fact that you are already recommending the Anaconda distro in the setup means there's no additional tooling needed on the user's end in order to install a conda package.

The simplest approach is to download a self-contained scientific Python distribution such as the Anaconda Individual Edition

Curious to hear what you think. Thanks!

mhallsmoore commented 3 years ago

Hi @zzhengnan,

Thank you for your suggestion of creating a conda package. I imagine there would be a lot of interest in this, since, as you mention I do recommend Anaconda as the most straightforward way to get started!

I have to admit I've not built a conda package myself before previously, so would need to look up the process.

Cheers,

-Mike.

zzhengnan commented 3 years ago

Thanks for the reply, Michael. If you are open to it, I'm more than happy to help contribute to this feature. Let me know.

zzhengnan commented 3 years ago

Hope you don't mind, but I got the process started https://github.com/conda-forge/staged-recipes/pull/13843.

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zzhengnan commented 3 years ago

Now that https://github.com/conda-forge/staged-recipes/pull/13843 has been merged and the resulting conda package created, I opened #359 to update the installation instructions.

mhallsmoore commented 3 years ago

Hi @zzhengnan,

Apologies for the delay in getting back to you about this.

Thank you very much for taking the time to package up QSTrader into a conda package!

I've now merged the README.md PR.

Cheers,

-Mike.

zzhengnan commented 3 years ago

No problem at all. Glad to help :)