Install GraalPython and supported packages with conda / conda-forge?

[paugier]

This is more a question than an issue but it could be seen as a very long term issue :slightly_smiling_face:

conda-forge and the conda/mamba package managers are very popular in the numerical Python community. PyPy starts to be supported by conda-forge and it's now very simple to create a conda environment with PyPy3 and packages compiled for this interpreter.

I guess GraalPython is not yet mature enough but it would be great to be able to create a GraalPython environment with popular packages (without local build process) with something like

mamba -n env_graal graalpython numpy pandas ...

Do you think this could be possible at some point?

[msimacek]

I hope it will be possible, but we haven't investigated that option yet. I'll try to take a look at what it would entail

[timfel]

PR to conda-forge is open: https://github.com/conda-forge/staged-recipes/pull/20882

[timfel]

the graalpy feedstock was merged to conda forge in January, so conda create -c conda-forge -n graalpy graalpy just works now.

[timfel]

we did not enable any of the native package builds on conda yet, this needs to be done package by package.