Conda installation of Iris

[marqh]

The installation of Iris using Conda is now documented and supported via the SciTools binstar channel.

The installation process, documented here:
http://www.scitools.org.uk/iris/docs/latest/installing.html

only requires miniconda and the SciTools channel

conda install -c scitools iris

excellent work Iris devs

[Andreas Hilboll]

When I run this, conda wants to install Iris 1.7.2.dev-np18py27_0, which
is older than the released 1.7.3 (is 1.7.3 released? I assume so since
there's a v1.7.3 tag on Github).

Do you gurus have a timeline when the Scitools conda channel will be
up-to-date? Are there any tasks I can contribute to help?

Andreas.

[marqh]

Hello Andreas

You are right.  Iris 1.7.3 is released.  however there was a glitch in the release which prevented it from building on windows so it didn't get pushed to the SciTools channel.

This glitch has been fixed on 1.7.x so I have updated the SciTools binstar channel to use 1.7.4-dev

This has just landed on binstar and should now be available for use

many thanks for the testing and feedback

mark

[Phil Elson]

For the record, the builds are automatically uploaded to binstar when a change is made to https://github.com/SciTools/conda-recipes-scitools. To update the binstar channel to have Iris 1.7.4-dev, all we did was merge https://github.com/SciTools/conda-recipes-scitools/pull/49, so if there is something that needs updating and we haven't got around to it yet, any PRs are more than welcome to https://github.com/SciTools/conda-recipes-scitools.

Cheers,

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[Andrew Dawson]

Is there a reason that actual releases are not published as such, for example checking out the 1.7.3 tag and building that rather than the 1.7.x branch as is currently done?

[Phil Elson]

Simply that there is no Iris release which can be built on Windows. It would even have been possible to define a build of 1.7.3 for everything but Windows and a 1.7.4.dev for Windows, but we just didn't do it. If that was something that is useful, I'd happily support updating the repo.

[Andrew Dawson]

No I think it is OK, I just wondered why. I take this to mean that in future (now Windows is supported) the builds can be from released versions?

[Phil Elson]

Yep. :)