Include patches used in conda-standalone

[ericpre]

• includes patches used in https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-standalone-feedstock and https://github.com/AnacondaRecipes/conda-standalone-feedstock
• resolve conflict with menuinst 1.4.17

These two commits are used as patch in conda-forge/conda-standalone-feedstock#18.

[jezdez]

This seems certainly like a good feature, but it'd be splendid to have test coverage for the new parameter. Do you think the current tests are capable of handling this?

[ericpre]

I added tests, which create conda environment to check the existence of the shortcut and its name.

[ericpre]

@jezdez, could you please have a look at this PR? Thanks!

[jezdez]

Thanks for adding tests!

[isuruf]

Thanks @ericpre.
@jezdez, are there any plans for a new release?

[ericpre]

A new release would be convenient to make a new build of conda-standalone without having to patch menuinst: it should be possible to simplify the conda-standalone recipe by using the menuinst package, instead of downloading the menuinst source and patching it when building conda-standalone!

[ericpre]

See conda-forge/conda-standalone-feedstock#18 (comment) and subsequent discussion.

[jezdez]

@ericpre Thanks for the pointers, I'll let @chenghlee answer that since he did the last release.

[chenghlee]

Handling other things today, but I'll make sure we get a new release tagged by Monday.

[isuruf]

Thanks @chenghlee. We might need a constructor release too.