officially support conda install distributions?

[stephentu]

do we want this? data-microscopes is using my unofficial version of it already, and it seems to work OK. if so, I think we'll want to do two things:

(A) make an official distributions channel on binstar
(B) get a travis CI hook to build new recipes when tags are made (or this can be manual, but it has to be done on both an OS X machine and Linux machine separately)

right now the pip install route is (a) not kept up to date and (b) doesn't quite work out of the box (you still need to compile libdistributions by yourself). I think the conda install can potentially be more portable since it, for example, packages libprotobuf so you don't have to worry about protobuf library version discrepancies. conda also gets the rpath stuff right so you don't have to keep exporting (DY)LD_LIBRARY_PATH

[fritzo]

Sounds like an improvement to me. Let @cap and I know what you need on our end.

[stephentu]

great-- I think I'm good for now, I'll work on this in between other stuff. quick question: what environments do you guys currently support? I've been able to get distributions working for me on OS X 10.9, Ubuntu 12.04, and my up to date arch linux machine.

[fritzo]

I believe we only use Ubuntu 12.04 and 14.04. In our group, only Eric Jonas
uses OS X to my knowledge.

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great-- I think I'm good for now, I'll work on this in between other
stuff. quick question: what environments do you guys currently support?
I've been able to get distributions working for me on OS X 10.9, Ubuntu
12.04, and my up to date arch linux machine.

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