This provides an envdir program to our Conda runtime since our other runtimes also provide this useful program and we've felt its absence.¹
Since there's no existing Conda packaging of the Python envdir distribution² we use elsewhere or any other envdir program AFAICT³, the particular program provided is a port I wrote long ago⁴ and still use daily on my own machines. It's vendored into this repository and built into the Conda packages we're already producing here. This is a quick and low-overhead solution, and we may want to switch to a packaging of the Python envdir distribution later (particularly if we want to use the Python envdir module that distribution also provides).
This provides an
envdirprogram to our Conda runtime since our other runtimes also provide this useful program and we've felt its absence.¹Since there's no existing Conda packaging of the Python envdir distribution² we use elsewhere or any other
envdirprogram AFAICT³, the particular program provided is a port I wrote long ago⁴ and still use daily on my own machines. It's vendored into this repository and built into the Conda packages we're already producing here. This is a quick and low-overhead solution, and we may want to switch to a packaging of the Python envdir distribution later (particularly if we want to use the Python envdir module that distribution also provides).Resolves https://github.com/nextstrain/conda-base/issues/35.
¹ https://github.com/nextstrain/.github/pull/44#discussion_r1214650282 ² https://pypi.org/project/envdir/
³ I checked for both daemontools, which provides the original, and s6, which provides another port, as well as a general search for "envdir".
⁴ https://github.com/tsibley/envdir
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