Conda Forge package

[xeoneox]

On Linux, I've switch from Homebrew to Pixi, because everything stays in my home directory per user, and I have cross platform compatibility across Windows / Mac / Linux.

Should I work on a Conda Forge recipe?

[amterp]

Ahoy @xeoneox !

Not familiar with the world of Pixi & Conda Forge, did some quick research and it looks pretty good! Out of interest, do you come from a Python/data science background; seems like these tools are popular in that space?

I think this would be positive though, are you familiar with how to do this? I've had a read through these Conda Forge docs, what will you need from me to get this up and running?

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All this said, I'll share my general view/concerns in this area; I'm still working hard on Rad and it's under active development, so I want to minimize time spent on "ops" e.g. releases & package management, so I can maximize dev time. As long as we end up with something low-maintenance/automated however, happy to proceed, since I recognize that "just Homebrew" is quite limiting atm :)

[xeoneox]

Not familiar with the world of Pixi & Conda Forge, did some quick research and it looks pretty good! Out of interest, do you come from a Python/data science background; seems like these tools are popular in that space?

I did not. I came to Conda Forge after all the dust had settled with direction and corporate governance. Nowadays it's a pretty good general purpose cross platform packaging system. Homebrew doesn't play nice inside my home directory, so I finally made the switch.

I think this would be positive though, are you familiar with how to do this? I've had a read through these Conda Forge docs, what will you need from me to get this up and running?

https://conda-forge.org/docs/maintainer/example_recipes/go/

I think I will copy and paste this recipe

All this said, I'll share my general view/concerns in this area; I'm still working hard on Rad and it's under active development, so I want to minimize time spent on "ops" e.g. releases & package management, so I can maximize dev time. As long as we end up with something low-maintenance/automated however, happy to proceed, since I recognize that "just Homebrew" is quite limiting atm :)

I think the bigger item is mage for build, rather than make. I would like to migrate to that, and then the opsy stuff can be mostly automated away

[amterp]

Gotcha. Yeah I'm open to the magefile approach, happy to accept a PR and try it out, if you're alright doing that :)
How will the conda forge updating work for releases? For Homebrew, I have a Github workflow which raises a PR in https://github.com/amterp/homebrew-rad that I then merge, which updates the formula.