Conda-forge distribution of BIDS-Validator

[oesteban]

Do you think it would be interesting to create a conda-forge recipe to enable installing the validator with just a conda install -c conda-forge bids-validator?

[effigies]

Would this be the Node or Python package?

[oesteban]

The Node package

On Sun, May 12, 2019, 12:56 Chris Markiewicz [email protected] wrote:

Would this be the Node or Python package?

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[sappelhoff]

Sounds very interesting @oesteban . Would this mean that users can only install conda (e.g., via miniconda) and don't have to first get npm and nodejs to use the bids-validator?

[oesteban]

That would be the idea, npm and nodejs would be baked in the conda distribution.

[oesteban]

Actually, nodejs is already there https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/nodejs

[sappelhoff]

+1 I'd be happy to review the process if needed

[rwblair]

Made a metadata.yml for the validator and opened a pr against conda-forge: https://github.com/conda-forge/staged-recipes/pull/9771

[rwblair]

@oesteban @effigies @sappelhoff How important is a windows build for the validator in conda-forge?

[sappelhoff]

I think a Windows build for the validator would be good to have. This also relates to having a CI for Windows, which we talked about several weeks ago and I think @nellh made some steps towards it.

I don't know what the current status of bids-validator under Windows is.

[yarikoptic]

@rwblair @sappelhoff -- wouldn't you think it would be worthwhile now to reincarnate https://github.com/conda-forge/staged-recipes/pull/9771 ? The only mentioned Windows specific issue (https://github.com/bids-standard/bids-validator/issues/926) was closed since then.

[sappelhoff]

yes, I think this would be very nice to have.

[effigies]

Note that https://github.com/conda-forge/bids-validator-feedstock/ does exist for the Python package. We would need some other name, such as bids-validator-nodejs.