Hey folks Has there been given any thought on how to add con

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Hey folks Has there been given any thought on how to add conda support for the optional dependencies Perhaps I can help

josh · Answer

Hey < Michael C Grant> No plans that I am aware of and we definitely welcome support

josh · Answer

cc < Chris White> and < Jim Crist Harif> since they have more experience in this area

Michael C. Grant · Answer

Yes Thanks I have good reason to believe they would have good ideas wink and they know we can help

Jim Crist-Harif · Answer

You mean like breaking apart the prefect package on conda forge into say a `prefect` and `prefect core` package

Michael C. Grant · Answer

Perhaps but I m really talking about building conda equivalents of the various pip options <https docs prefect io core getting started installation html optional dependencies> I m actually currently interested in the new Git option

Michael C. Grant · Answer

So for example `conda install prefect redis prefect viz` would get you prefect plus those two options

Jim Crist-Harif · Answer

Prefect has a lot of different extras I m not sure if we want to make a `prefect ` package for each of them An alternative option might be to document all the optional dependencies For example Dask currently has `dask core` and `dask` any of the other extensions require specific dependencies which we document in our docs Could go either way here

Michael C. Grant · Answer

Well if I were doing the work and I might be volunteering I d bite the bullet and try and make a separate package for each of the pip options I know it may seem like a lot but once it s done it s going to be relatively straightforward to maintain especially if we go with multiple outputs in a single recipe file

Michael C. Grant · Answer

But the documentation option gets conda users up and running very quickly so that would be great

Jim Crist-Harif · Answer

Multiple outputs would definitely be the way to do it I m mainly concerned about things from a user perspective If we have 25 `prefect ` packages it may be less clear what the user should install But I suppose that s true with the documentation only approach as well

Michael C. Grant · Answer

Just to make sure I m not missing anything why would it be any less clear than the pip options In fact I could go so far as to say the conda instructions would could be something as simple as this to utilize one of the optional dependency sets just install `prefect lt blah gt ` where ` lt blah gt ` is the corresponding pip option Multiple options can be combined together in a single environment

Jim Crist-Harif · Answer

That s fair I was thinking from a naive user approach where they might see what conda packages exist before looking at our docs and get a bit overwhelmed But the benefits of using multiple packages probably outweigh the cons here

Michael C. Grant · Answer

I ll do a little experimenting

Michael C. Grant · Answer

This seems surprisingly simple ```outputs name prefect name prefect airtable requirements run prefect == version airtable python wrapper gt =0 11 lt 0 12 name prefect aws requirements run prefect == version boto3 gt =1 9 lt 2 0``` and so on

Michael C. Grant · Answer

Not that you should take inspiration from airflow but it looks like the package convention they are using is `airflow with lt blah gt `

Michael C. Grant · Answer

```prefect 0 12 2+34 gb96bd0285 py 0 tar bz2 prefect airtable 0 12 2+34 gb96bd0285 0 tar bz2 prefect aws 0 12 2+34 gb96bd0285 0 tar bz2 prefect azure 0 12 2+34 gb96bd0285 0 tar bz2 prefect dask cloudprovider 0 12 2+34 gb96bd0285 0 tar bz2 prefect dropbox 0 12 2+34 gb96bd0285 0 tar bz2 prefect gcp 0 12 2+34 gb96bd0285 0 tar bz2 prefect ge 0 12 2+34 gb96bd0285 0 tar bz2 prefect github 0 12 2+34 gb96bd0285 0 tar bz2 prefect google 0 12 2+34 gb96bd0285 0 tar bz2 prefect gsheets 0 12 2+34 gb96bd0285 0 tar bz2 prefect jira 0 12 2+34 gb96bd0285 0 tar bz2 prefect kubernetes 0 12 2+34 gb96bd0285 0 tar bz2 prefect mysql 0 12 2+34 gb96bd0285 0 tar bz2 prefect postgres 0 12 2+34 gb96bd0285 0 tar bz2 prefect pushbullet 0 12 2+34 gb96bd0285 0 tar bz2 prefect redis 0 12 2+34 gb96bd0285 0 tar bz2 prefect rss 0 12 2+34 gb96bd0285 0 tar bz2 prefect snowflake 0 12 2+34 gb96bd0285 0 tar bz2 prefect spacy 0 12 2+34 gb96bd0285 0 tar bz2 prefect templates 0 12 2+34 gb96bd0285 0 tar bz2 prefect test 0 12 2+34 gb96bd0285 0 tar bz2 prefect twitter 0 12 2+34 gb96bd0285 0 tar bz2 prefect viz 0 12 2+34 gb96bd0285 0 tar bz2 prefect dev 0 12 2+34 gb96bd0285 0 tar bz2```

Michael C. Grant · Answer

Jim Crist-Harif · Answer

Thanks I ll take a look tomorrow morning