is a conda package available somewhere?

[rjalexa]

Dear Dr. Brodersen, I manage my python environments using conda, not pip.

Is there a way to install your beautiful library with it?

Not sure how to flag this as just as a nice to have, not a bug.

[paulbrodersen]

Hi Robert

netgraph isn't currently uploaded to conda-forge. For a package to be eligible for conda-forge, all of its dependencies have to be on conda-forge. It used to be the case that several dependencies were not on conda, so I didn't even consider it. However, it seems that now the only dependency missing is retangle-packer, and they have a conda package on their own channel. As it is not a huge jump from there to publishing it on conda-forge, I will raise an issue with them and see if they have plans / can be persuaded to publish their package there.

In the meantime, you can install netgraph using pip inside an anaconda environment, as anaconda maintains compatibility with pip and by default comes with pip pre-installed in each environment.

Best, Paul

[paulbrodersen]

Mhm, actually, it looks like somebody other than the author uploaded rectangle-packer to anaconda.

[rjalexa]

Thanks a lot Paul. Yes as of now I did install via pip even though when you generate requirements down the line mixed environments often spell trouble. I see you are a computational neuroscientist, how interesting. I am a medical practitioner dabbling with AI (mostly NLP and knowledge graphs)! Take care and have a great winter holiday.

[paulbrodersen]

If you don't mind, I would like to leave the issue open. It's worth doing and I will otherwise forget to chase the author of rectangle-packer. ;-)

[paulbrodersen]

netgraph and all of its dependencies are now available via conda-forge:

conda install -c conda-forge netgraph

[rjalexa]

Thank you very much on behalf of all conda/mamba users :) Take care