Conda-build: pip dependencies in conda recipe

[arsenovic]

is there a way to include dependencies in a meta.yaml that are not yet available as conda packages?

or is the solution to go and build conda packages for all deps?

[jakirkham]

What sort of dependencies are you trying to include?

Python? AFAIK, no. I know there use to be an issue for listing PyPI dependencies in a package and for the life of me I can't find it. If it is Python, you can try the following:

• conda pipbuild <pypi_package> - Builds packages for the package listed and any dependencies it can't find. When it works, it is amazing, but there are edge cases it will fail on.
• conda skeleton pypi <pypi_package> - Gives a rough start at a Python package. There are variants for some other non-Python languages. Not recursive like conda pipbuild, but a bit more stable.
• Hunt down a recipe. There are tons here ( https://github.com/conda/conda-recipes ). Not to mention, most people put their recipes in a repo on GitHub and put the least restrictive licenses on them.
• Finally, write your own. Given the numerous examples and methods to get an easy start. It is pretty easy to tweak something to get what you want.

[connie]

Is it possible to use --pypi-url to point to a pypi.anaconda.org/username channel because there is a package there I want to use, rather than from pypi.python.org? I can't seem to figure out how to get it to work.

[kynan]

Supporting pip dependencies would be great particularly for conda forge. If you want to add a new recipe you currently need to make sure all dependencies are available via conda.

[znicholls]

Was there ever any progress on this? In order to have a pip dependency, at the moment it seems like you need to go through your entire dependency tree and make sure every package is available through conda. This seems like a lot of mucking around for what intuitively feels like a simple operation (maybe that's naive).