Publish jdaviz and its missing dependencies on conda-forge

[miguelgomezgomez]

Hi!

We'd like to get jdaviz on conda-forge. We're using it in GOATS (Gemini Observation and Analysis of Targets System) at Gemini Observatory, and we've been maintaining local conda packages for our internal infrastructure. Publishing jdaviz on conda-forge would make installation much easier for our users and for the broader scientific Python community.

Some required dependencies are currently missing from conda-forge or need to be updated:

ipygoldenlayout
ipypopout
ipysplitpanes
ipyvuedraggable
stdatamodels

We'll determine the exact version constraints when preparing the recipes.

The main benefits would be:

simpler installation and dependency management;
improved accessibility across institutions;
reduced reliance on custom conda channels; and
easier long-term maintenance for downstream projects such as GOATS.

We're happy to help prepare the staged-recipes submissions and maintain the resulting feedstocks. If members of the jdaviz team or the wider community are interested in co-maintaining them, we'd be glad to collaborate.

Would this be something the project would support?

[sbetti22]

Hi Miguel.

Thanks for reaching out and we are excited you are using jdaviz as part of GOATS.

Right now, as the required dependencies not currently on conda-forge and as they are major components to jdaviz, we are not able to support having jdaviz on conda-forge. However, once the other packages are available on conda, we will likely be able to fully support a jdaviz conda-forge recipe!

Are you willing to put the ipy and stdatamodels packages on conda-forge (slightly confused if that is what you meant when you said they were missing and are preparing recipes) or have you reached out to those folks about if/when they are putting them on conda-forge?

If you are able to continue to use the same method for installing it for the time being, hopefully that will suffice for the short term?

Sarah