intel
feat: add cve-bin-tool to conda-forge
Description
Add cve-bin-tool to conda-forge.
Why?
conda-forge is a place where the OSS community can add packages that can be installed via the conda ecoystem. conda-forge, in particular, is a channel that is maintained by the OSS community. I like that this package can be installed by pip, but it would be great if this package could be installed via conda, which is another package manager for Python.
Environment context (optional)
I was trying to install cve-bin-tool via conda using the command conda install -c conda-forge cve-bin-tool. conda told me that the package does not exist on the conda-forge channel
Anything else?
Here's an article from conda-forge about how to contribute a package to conda-forge: https://conda-forge.org/docs/maintainer/adding_pkgs/
This is an intriguing idea but I don't know how many of our dependencies are even in conda so it could be easy or it could be a huge pain and I'm not sure which.
I'm going to tag this as "future" since it's definitely not happening before the 3.4 release, but if anyone wants to do some groundwork and see how feasible this is, please go ahead and do so!
For this, we need to add a generated recipe to the conda-forge/staged-recipes repository. But I'm not sure this can be done by a non-maintainer.
Okay, that sounds doable, but let's put a pause on this until GSoC settles down a bit (likely end of May 2025 for me, after projects are selected and I've had time to clean up remaining pull requests). I'm going to mark is as blocked for now.