Fred Eisele

Thank @leofang Those mpi packages look like a great example. I will copy the link to the top. I have taken a look at the feedstocks. * https://github.com/conda-forge/mpich-feedstock/blob/main/recipe/meta.yaml * https://github.com/conda-forge/openmpi-feedstock/blob/main/recipe/meta.yaml...

@beckermr I am not sure I understand your argument. You concede that there are specific needs for a certain group of users and that those needs were addressed by this...

Those all sound like good reasons. What about licensing issues? I have two types of situations where I would like to use some version of this "wrapping" technique. The family...

@hmaarrfk > I think it is about freedom of choice. > We let people use Nvidia stuff. Here are links to the corresponding Nvidia feedstock. - [ ] https://github.com/conda-forge/nvidia-ml-feedstock -...

Suppose commercial or restricted packages, M, F, and H. Suppose I am developing a plugin for a system M. And, M's plugins are java v8 targets which make use of...

I am beginning to think the recommendation should be to place packages like these in alternate channels. Of course that means I will need to learn how to stand up...

If you want to share the package there are choices besides conda-forge. * https://help.sonatype.com/repomanager3/nexus-repository-administration/formats/conda-repositories * https://github.com/mamba-org/quetz * https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/36891 * https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/spark/apache-spark-custom-conda-channel * https://docs.anaconda.com/anacondaorg/user-guide/tasks/work-with-accounts/#cloud-accounts-create The nexus repo manager only supports conda-proxy, not...

Next point. Should `meta.yaml` be modified to perform external discovery in some standard way? e.g. For the OracleJDK but others would be similar. ``` ... discovery: home: 'C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_(\d*)-.*' #...

@isuruf I have written a bunch about this so rather than repeating myself. https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge.github.io/issues/1706 [There is also a README.md in this project](https://github.com/conda-forge/staged-recipes/pull/18675/commits/c291ee799d14e9513f142b44f3c3906ede0e66c7#diff-760ee96dffb36277321bf258904370e07ea7e95eaec913cdabd22101972804dd)

I am switching this back to being a draft. I am studying the following to see how they handle `external` - [ ] https://conda-forge.org/docs/user/tipsandtricks.html#using-external-message-passing-interface-mpi-libraries - [ ] https://github.com/conda-forge/openmpi-feedstock/blob/main/recipe/meta.yaml - [...