Create a conda-forge recipe so Herbie can be installed via conda

[blaylockbk]

It would be nice if Herbie could be installed with Conda directly, instead of using Pip. Especially since Herbie depends on cfgrib and cartopy, which have dependencies that can't be installed with pip (proj, GEOS, eccodes)

I don't have experience with this, but want to learn. If anyone can help out with this, that would be awesome 😁

• https://blog.gishub.org/how-to-publish-a-python-package-on-conda-forge
• https://docs.conda.io/projects/conda-build/en/latest/user-guide/tutorials/build-pkgs-skeleton.html
• https://github.com/conda-forge/staged-recipes/blob/main/recipes/example/meta.yaml
• https://github.com/blaylockbk/staged-recipes#getting-started

[dopplershift]

What you need is to make a PR to conda-forge's staged-recipes repository adding a file recipes/herbie/meta.yaml. For information on what should be in meta.yaml, you can look at metpy's.

[blaylockbk]

Thanks for the tip @dopplershift. I always look at MetPy to pattern my stuff. Haha!

[blaylockbk]

Thanks so much @dopplershift for your direction. It was fun to learn something new, and it was a lot easier than I thought it would be. I guess by putting this on conda-forge I'm digging myself in an even deeper hole maintaining my grad school code 😆. Oh well.