conda
Allow for conda install to accept URLs to lock files as the lock file positonal argument
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What is the idea?
Hi. It would be a nice feature to be able to give a URL to a lock file for conda-lock install's lock file positional argument
conda-lock install [OPTIONS] [LOCK_FILE]
as can be done with micromamba create's --file argument.
At the moment conda-lock install explicitly looks for a local file with pathlib.Path
https://github.com/conda/conda-lock/blob/83b18d5cc05b8a04ab0a4ca4b136fba7144457eb/conda_lock/conda_lock.py#L1443-L1463
Why is this needed?
It would be in general nice to be able to have similar syntacic features to the conda/mamba/micromamba create command. To give an explicit example, this create command with a URL to a valid conda-lock file is valid
$ micromamba create --name iris-hep --file https://iris-hep.org/analysis-system-env-nightlies/iris-hep/3.11/conda-lock.yml
but to do the same action with conda-lock install requires downloading it locally first
$ curl -sLO https://iris-hep.org/analysis-system-env-nightlies/iris-hep/3.11/conda-lock.yml
$ conda-lock install --micromamba --name iris-hep conda-lock.yml
This is very much a convienence feature, but it would be nice to have.
What should happen?
The user experience would be that the lock file positional argument in the conda-lock install CLI
conda-lock install [OPTIONS] [LOCK_FILE]
would accept either a valid URL or a valid local path. So both of the following would be valid
- URL
$ conda-lock install --name iris-hep https://iris-hep.org/analysis-system-env-nightlies/iris-hep/3.11/conda-lock.yml
- local path (current approach)
$ curl -sLO https://iris-hep.org/analysis-system-env-nightlies/iris-hep/3.11/conda-lock.yml
$ conda-lock install --name iris-hep conda-lock.yml
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Want to write a PR?
I'm generally not opposed to it, and I would probably just poke at what micromamba does, but realistically I woudn't be able to start contributing anything for at least a month given the amount of backlog I have for my work. So I would welcome another contributor to beat me to it.