Build recipes in given order, not alphabetically sorted order

[kurtschelfthout]

Actual Behavior

conda build recipeB/ recipeA/ first builds recipeA, then recipeB.

Expected Behavior

It should build in the order given, i.e. recipeB first.

This is important if recipeA has a dependency on recipeB - in that case with the sorted order the build fails.

This happens because of the sorted here:

conda-build/conda_build/api.py

Line 187 in ef7ef98

sorted(recipes),

It should just be left out.

This behavior changed in 3.20 and upwards, was working fine in 3.19 and before.

[mingwandroid]

I agree with you here; though actually conda-build could do even better, it could do a topological sort on the (rendered) recipes' dependencies.

Pinging @njalerikson for his thoughts.

[kurtschelfthout]

Thanks for the prompt attention.

it could do a topological sort on the (rendered) recipes' dependencies.

I suggest making sure conda-build respects the order of the given positional arguments first ;) I classify current behavior as a bug, and topological sort as a new feature.

Generally it's intuitive if conda build A B is the same as conda build A & conda build B.

[kenodegard]

I agree.

I would remove the sorting and if we do look into topological (or other) sorting that would be a new feature and likely hidden behind a flag (--sort=[none,alpha,topo,...]).

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[kenodegard]

Resolved in #4134