Resources for Getting Started with Package Building

[tnabtaf (Dave Clements)]

The Conda-build documentation includes several tutorials on package building:

• Building conda packages
  • A tutorial describing how to use conda-build to create conda packages on Windows, macOS, and Linux using the examples of SEP and GDAL
• Building conda packages with conda skeleton
  • How to quickly build a conda package for a Python module that is already available on PyPI.
  • Note that skeleton is likely to be replaced with grayskull within a year.
• Building conda packages from scratch
  • How to build a conda package for Click by writing the required files in the conda-build recipe
• Building R packages with skeleton CRAN
  • How to quickly build an R-language package on macOS for an R module that is already available on CRAN.
• And much more.

Some channels also have channel specific documentation:

• conda-forge
  • Add a recipe
  • Contributing packages
• Bioconda
  • Contributing to Bioconda
  • Guidelines for bioconda recipes
  • See the Package Builders ⇒ Bioconda category.