Post to conda

[WillAyd]

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[WillAyd]

I think will need for the tableauhyperapi to at least be available on pip for this, or else the install scripts be pretty tough to maintain

[WillAyd]

Now that we are bundling the Hyper API this is a little closer to reality. However, we still have a runtime dependency on the tableauhyperapi with the sole purpose of accepting TableName objects. If that were duck-typed and we removed that dependency a conda package is not out of the question

FYI @jorwoods

[craigbosco]

Would love to get this on Conda... makes life a lot easier. I appreciate your work!

[zach-hunt]

Seconded! Having a bit of a go getting pip to install things nicely with the rest of the environment, so conda would be quite a treat. Thanks!

[WillAyd]

@craigbosco @zach-hunt would either of you be interested in contributing and maintaining that recipe? From my loose understanding, I think we need something as described here:

https://conda-forge.org/docs/maintainer/adding_pkgs/

The one blocker right now is that we have a dependency on the tableauhyperapi. However, we could either try to create that on conda-forge (with permission from Tableau) or drop that runtime dependency (requires some code updates)

[zach-hunt]

@WillAyd - I don't have any experience with publishing to conda, so I wouldn't be the guy to support this. I do hope this project continues to succeed!

[craigbosco]

I could take a stab at it. I'll check on tableauhyperapi and see if that's feasible before attempting to remove the dependency.

[WillAyd]

@craigbosco that's great. To help that front I've started to remove the runtime dependency on the tableau hyper API in #336. That is desirable for more than just packaging as it reduces the runtime installation size of pantab by somewhere between 50-100 MB

[WillAyd]

OK I've dropped the dependency on the tableauhyperapi - @craigbosco I think you can just set up a conda recipe using this repo as is.

If you get stuck while looking at the setup feel free to ping - happy to offer any guidance that I can