These files describes the conda environment (conda package dependencies):

environment.yml - describes conda packages that are useful for installing sage.

This would be a more idiomatic alternative to the conda install line that is shown at the end of ./configure

In combination with the spkg-configure mechanism, this will speed up installation of Sage, in particular for users stuck on outdated OS distributions.

Open:

• use GitLab CI to actually check that sage builds with environment.yml
• scripts to support keeping package versions in sync between environment.yml, sage-the-distribution (build/pkgs), and conda-forge packaging (https://github.com/conda-forge/sage-feedstock/tree/master/recipe, https://github.com/conda-forge/sagelib-feedstock/tree/master/recipe)

See also:

• Meta-ticket: Make sagelib pip-installable in a conda environment #28752 for a more ambitious conda ticket
• Add documentation for implementing spkg-configure.m4 and distros/ for SPKGs #26668 Add documentation for implementing spkg-configure.m4 for SPKGs
• Meta-ticket: spkg-configure: Try to use as many system packages as possible #27330 Try to use as many system packages as possible

Depends on #30839
Depends on #30719
Depends on #30611

CC: @isuruf @saraedum @dimpase @embray

Component: build

Keywords: conda

Author: Isuru Fernando

Branch/Commit: 736e006

Reviewer: Matthias Koeppe

Issue created by migration from https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/28745