Publish AMICO to conda-forge?

[pauldmccarthy]

Hi @daducci and @nightwnvol,

I was wondering if you have any interest/objection to publish dmri-amico and dmri-dicelib to conda-forge, to allow them to be installed with conda / mamba? I have created conda recipes for both packages, and am currently building/publishing them in our internal build system - I would be more than happy to add them to the conda-forge ecosystem if you are interested, and manage their maintenance (and/or add you as maintainers - it is usually a very low-effort role).

I have already opened a PR to add spams-cython to conda-forge: conda-forge/staged-recipes#24636

You can see the initial recipes I have set up for dmri-dicelib and dmri-amico at these URLs:

• https://git.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/fsl/conda/dmri-amico/
• https://git.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/fsl/conda/dmri-dicelib/

And you can see example build logs for both packages here (for Linux x86-64, and intel/ARM macOS):

• https://git.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/fsl/conda/dmri-dicelib/-/pipelines/21818
• https://git.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/fsl/conda/dmri-amico/-/pipelines/21823

You can install these prototype packages into a conda environment with a command such as:

mamba create \
 -c https://fsl.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/fsldownloads/fslconda/development/ \
 -c https://fsl.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/fsldownloads/fslconda/public \
 -c conda-forge \
 -p ./amico.env \
 dmri-amico

(if we publish AMICO to conda-forge, specifying the FSL conda channels would not be required).

I'm not sure if AMICO specifically requires OpenBLAS, so am currently building against the netlib LAPACK/BLAS libraries, as this is recommended practice for conda-forge packages (it allows the BLAS/LAPACK implementations to be swapped out without recompilation - you can read more about this here). But if AMICO does require OpenBLAS specifically, then the recipe can be adjusted accordingly.

Thanks!

[nightwnvol]

Hi @pauldmccarthy,

we are definitely interested in publishing dmri-amico and dmri-dicelib on conda-forge. We appreciate your effort in creating the recipes and managing the build/publishing process and we would be more than happy to be added as maintainers for the packages on conda-forge.

Regarding the requirements, AMICO is set up to use the OpenBLAS libraries, but it can also be built with other BLAS implementations (as you have already done in your recipe).

[pauldmccarthy]

@nightwnvol great, thanks! I'll get the ball rolling over at conda-forge/staged-recipes :)

[pauldmccarthy]

xref conda-forge/staged-recipes#24708

[nightwnvol]

• Add recipes for dmri-amico and dmri-dicelib conda-forge/staged-recipes#24708