Add a .condarc file to manage channels

[Luthaf]

This will make new channels survive new julia sessions.

See http://conda.pydata.org/docs/config.html?highlight=condarc#the-conda-configuration-file-condarc for the documentation about condarc.

[jakirkham]

👍

[jakirkham]

Neat. Now one can do cool things like add conda-forge.

[Luthaf]

Yeah, that conda-forge article remind me of this issue, and gave me the hint to the conda config command.

[jakirkham]

Yeah, that conda-forge article remind me of this issue...

Which one? 😄

Also, if there are any packages that you are interested in getting in, we would be more than happy to guide you through the process.

[Luthaf]

This one: https://www.continuum.io/blog/developer-blog/community-conda-forge. Sorry, I did not follow your link, and assumed you gave the same link I read yesterday 😄

I might try to get my three packages in conda-forge someday. What are you using for Linux builds ? I got some issues when building them with a too recent glibc.

[jakirkham]

This one: https://www.continuum.io/blog/developer-blog/community-conda-forge. Sorry, I did not follow your link, and assumed you gave the same link I read yesterday 😄

Ah ok. What did you think?

There was this one that someone else did as a commentary on conda-forge. So, I didn't know if you meant that one. Who knows maybe others have written articles too.

I might try to get my three packages in conda-forge someday.

That sounds great! Honestly, I think you will find this is quite simple.

What are you using for Linux builds ?

We use this docker image, which is built from this source.

I got some issues when building them with a too recent glibc.

Absolutely. This is something we take very seriously. Currently, we build on CentOS 6, which has a glibc of 2.12. This seems to be old enough in practice so far. Is that old enough for you?

There has been some discussion about switching to CentOS 5 before, but there are some issues like it's EOL is next year, NVIDA CUDA 7.5 doesn't support it, and there have been some build troubles.

[Luthaf]

CentOS 6 should do it for me, except that I need a C++11 compiler. So I should maybe use another compiler with C++11 support, and statically linking to libstdc++.

I'll look to put my formulas in conda-forge for the next release!

[jakirkham]

CentOS 6 should do it for me, except that I need a C++11 compiler. So I should maybe use another compiler with C++11 support, and statically linking to libstdc++.

Not a problem. On Linux we provide devtoolset-2, which includes gcc 4.8.2. This has C++11 support. It also does partial static linking with some of libgcc so that the end user only needs to have CentOS 6 or newer (just links to standard system libraries).

I'll look to put my formulas in conda-forge for the next release!

Awesome! 👍 Looking forward to working with you, @Luthaf.