Create a binary for Pip

[R1j1t]

Cn we use something similar to setup the dependencies easily via conda https://stackoverflow.com/a/59390280/7630458?
As I can see GDAL has a binary available via conda: https://gdal.org/download.html#conda and same goes for rasterio: https://github.com/conda-forge/rasterio-feedstock#installing-rasterio.

This will make it easy for users to be able to start with the package easily also they don't need to manually install GDAL. Let me know your thoughts on this.

Once this is sorted, I would like to contribute to make this package available on conda or pip for easy consumption.

[seedlit]

Interesting. And thanks for volunteering for contributing.
However, I am also using command line based saga_cmd (also see Saga GIS home page).
I am not sure if we can also setup saga_cmd via conda. I will take a look.

[R1j1t]

I did check saga_cmd, I think if it is possible to substitute it then we should aim to do that else, lets leave that part to the user to install. We can update the code to warn the user to install saga. Everything else can be packaged in a library! I think that will a good start and a small win 🥇

[R1j1t]

We can use this documentation to build a package and upload it to conda: https://docs.conda.io/projects/conda-build/en/latest/user-guide/tutorials/build-pkgs.html

[R1j1t]

This can be used to pass version number and then upload the package to anaconda.
https://github.blog/changelog/2020-07-06-github-actions-manual-triggers-with-workflow_dispatch/

[R1j1t]

For conda-forge: https://github.com/R1j1t/staged-recipes/blob/build/dsm2dtm/recipes/dsm2dtm/meta.yaml
Official doc ref: https://conda-forge.org/docs/maintainer/adding_pkgs.html#
cc @seedlit

[R1j1t]

@seedlit can you add a comment on the PR showing your approval to be the maintainer of the recipe?