Provide iminuit via conda / binstar about iminuit HOT 16 CLOSED

I'd love to but how? I have my class use anaconda and I'd love them to have access to this package without having to install extra library too.

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Looks like there already is an entry for iminuit in conda-recipes:
https://github.com/conda/conda-recipes/tree/master/iminuit
(this does not mean that iminuit is available by default in anaconda though or that binaries are built somewhere, I think).

@asmeurer Any chance to get iminuit into Anaconda?
If no, is there a build service that creates binaries (especially for Windows) on Binstar?

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I can look at adding it. It's a little unfortunate that it doesn't support Python 3.

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I did build one with conda but only for linux-64. Available like this:
conda install -c https://conda.binstar.org/fabianrost iminuit

I used the git repository. Unfortunately, there are no version tags, so I manually set the version to 0.0.150511 (todays date).

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@asmeurer – A new release of iminuit that supports Python 3 is available now:
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/iminuit/1.2

Any chance that this gets built and distributed via a Continuum or community-maintained conda channel?

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@ilanschnell @groutr

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@mwcraig produced conda packages for iminuit, they are available via the astropy channel:
https://anaconda.org/astropy/iminuit

Before I put that info in the iminuit install docs, one last try...

@ilanschnell @groutr - Is it possible to get iminuit in Anaconda or some other channel where Continuum builds the packages when new versions come out? MINUIT is very much liked by scientists and it's a very robust package for model fitting. But maybe it's too niche and at least for now distributing it via the astropy channel is more appropriate?

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Thanks for reaching out. I see that iminuit only has had one release so far: https://github.com/iminuit/iminuit/tags We can only add released (tagged) versions of iminuit to the official Anaconda repository.
What type of release frequency can we expect? Perhaps the astropy channel is more appropriate, at least for now. This way you have complete control over how you push conda packages (without having to bug us).

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@ilanschnell - There's two stable releases of iminuit on PyPI:

• https://pypi.python.org/pypi/iminuit/1.1.1 from 2014-01-28
• https://pypi.python.org/pypi/iminuit/1.2 from 2015-11-10

MINUIT is 30 years old (the C++ version we wrap is 10 years old) and iminuit is a few years old.
The development activity is low, I think for the coming years maybe ~ yearly releases.

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I like slow release cycles! I'll look into it, or at least put it on the agenda.

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For now I'm advertising the astropy conda channel for iminuit users:
http://iminuit.readthedocs.org/en/latest/installation.html#conda

Closing this issue now.

@ilanschnell - Please let us know if iminuit makes it into the official Anaconda repo some day and we'll update the docs.

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I see that iminuit is now available in a few channels:
https://anaconda.org/search?q=iminuit

@ilanschnell - is this the official Anaconda channel, that users have per default?
https://anaconda.org/anaconda/iminuit
If yes, that would be awesome, and I'd point out that in our docs.
Also, if yes, could you please update iminuit to 1.2 there? Or can I make a pull request to do that somewhere myself?

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I would suggest adding it to conda-forge.

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Looks like 1.1.1 is on defaults. If you add it to conda-forge it will continue to be copied over to the astropy channel also.

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Just in case anyone finds this old thread: iminuit is being added to conda-forge right now: conda-forge/staged-recipes#3479 which seems to be a good and long-term solution for conda packages.

@mwcraig - Thank you!

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No problem!

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