Make a Conda/bioconda release of CMash

[dkoslicki]

This will also serve to assist with the installation of Metalign.

[luizirber]

cmash is now in bioconda, since bioconda/bioconda-recipes#20701 was merged

[dkoslicki]

@luizirber You’ll have to educate me about how this was accomplished. In particular, is this bioconda version pegged to a release of CMash, or just generally tracking CMash as updates to master happening? Eg. How to update the bioconda release? Etc.

I imagine a brief face-to-face/teleconference would help with this, as getting CMash on bioconda has been a big goal, but you’ve appeared to make it seem rather trivial to do, and I’d love to be educated about how you accomplished it.

[luizirber]

@luizirber You’ll have to educate me about how this was accomplished. In particular, is this bioconda version pegged to a release of CMash, or just generally tracking CMash as updates to master happening? Eg. How to update the bioconda release? Etc.

Since the github release (v0.4.0) was newer than the one in PyPI I used that as a base, So, any time you tag a new release Bioconda will detect the new release and create a new PR (here is an example for sourmash, but we list the PyPI URL there instead). Since I listed you as a recipe maintainer in CMash, you will get a github notification, and when tests pass you can merge it (if you're a bioconda team member) or ask for someone to merge it. If tests are not passing, you can commit new changes to the PR to fix problems (missing dependencies, for example)

I also had to package a PyPI dependency missing in bioconda/conda-forge (Hydra), so now I'm a package maintainer in https://github.com/conda-forge/hydra-feedstock. I don't foresee many issues arising (since hydra is pretty stable and probably won't have new versions), but if can also join as a recipe maintainer if you want (I don't even use hydra 🤣)

I imagine a brief face-to-face/teleconference would help with this, as getting CMash on bioconda has been a big goal, but you’ve appeared to make it seem rather trivial to do, and I’d love to be educated about how you accomplished it.

If you have any other questions we can go in more detail, we can try to schedule something (depending on your availability =])