[Bigbang-dev] BBIP 1: Installation through environment.yaml file

[Niels ten Oever]

This totally seems like the best way to go. Good stuff. I +1ed the ticket.

Cheers,

Niels

Niels ten Oever
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On 10/23/2016 03:30 PM, Sebastian Benthall wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have elevated an issue to BBIP status because it is a major change
> that would effect the whole community if implemented.
> 
> It's a proposal to change the supported installation of BigBang to use a
> conda environment file.
> 
> This would replace the existing custom conda-setup.sh script (which I
> wrote because I didn't know about environment files) and the optional
> alternative pip installation path (which experience has shown is hard to
> maintain).
> 
> https://github.com/datactive/bigbang/issues/248
> 
> I'm +1 on this issue.
> 
> I see now that as written, there's a bug in the bylaws
> <https://github.com/datactive/bigbang/wiki/Governance>, since I think by
> the precise wording this needs two more +1's from active Core
> Developers. But there aren't enough core developers to pass it!
> 
> So really I'm asking for feedback on two things:
> 
>   * substantively, your opinion on this BBIP. Please register your vote
>     (+1, +0, -0, -1) on the ticket
>   * procedurally, ways to fix the bylaw bug :)
> 
> In the meantime, I'll work on a pull request for this issue so you can
> see what it will look like in practice and try it out.
> 
> All best,
> Seb
> 
> 
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