2022-04-13 Conda Community Meeting

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Attendees

Name	Initials	Affiliation	GH Username
Dave Clements	DPC	Anaconda	tnabtaf
Cheng H. Lee	CHL	Anaconda	chenghlee
Matthew R Becker	MRB	cf	beckermr
Kartik Raj	KR	Python VSCode	karrtikr
Filipe Fernandes	FF
Bianca Henderson	BH	Anaconda	beeankha
Katherine Kinnaman	KK	Anaconda	kathatherine
John Kirkham	JK	NVIDIA/cf	jakirkham
Mike McCarty	MM	NVIDIA	mmccarty
Sebastien Awwad	SA	Anaconda	awwad
Marcelo Duarte Trevisani	MDT	conda-forge	marcelotrevisani

19 people present

Introductions

• Kartik Raj (VS Code)

Announcements

Standing Items

New Agenda Items

• (CHL/JK) Stopping noarch: python builds on Anaconda defaults
  • Conflates architecture- and interpreter-version independece
  • Various kludges to get noarch working with arch-sensitive components
  • Expect further discussions as we iterate on the recipe, dependency spec format
• (KR) Discuss state of Python ext VSCode and conda
  • https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/70248
  • Is conda activate always necessary? Is a shell always necessary? - Probably, yes (de-facto API). Without it, environment setup would likely not work correctly.
  • Details about activation in release notes here: https://github.com/conda/conda/releases/tag/4.4.0
• (JK) test/commands & run_test.* currently exclusive (unintended?)
  • https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge.github.io/issues/1490
  • https://github.com/conda/conda-build/issues/4427
• (JK) Transitive dependencies
  • https://github.com/conda/conda-build/issues/3308
• (JK) Setuptools deprecation affecting load_setup_py_data
  • https://github.com/conda/conda-build/issues/4428
  • Also impacts grayskull
  • We need to track down the PEP announcing this change
• (CHL) Propose some topic for PyCon Packaging Summit?
  • Specifying external library dependencies (brought up previously)
  • how to deal with install requirements

Deferred Agenda Items

Outstanding Items From the Previous Meeting

(Previous meeting notes.)

Active Votes

Subteam Updates

Open PRs

Discussion

Action items

Last meeting points

What is this meeting for?

Various parts of the conda community gather on a regular basis. This meeting brings together all of these sub-communities for a community wide call.