cadnano in conda-forge

[hadim]

Hi guys,

With the upcoming release of cadnano, I have created a cadnano feestock to make it available in conda-forge (https://conda-forge.github.io/).

That will make the process of installing cadnano much easier than with pip. Basically people will only need to install the Anaconda distribution and do conda install cadnano. Also cadnano will automatically update with others conda packages when requesting.

For devs it's easier to deploy a new version because conda-forge takes care of packaging cadnano for Linux, Windows and OS X automatically.

I know some pip wheels are available for Qt5 but not for all platform. conda-forge solves this issue. I need to check but I think it's also possible to add entries menu in some OS.

For now the cadnano recipe feedstock is not going to be merged (conda-forge/staged-recipes#1652) until Qt 5.7 is available in conda-forge which should happen anytime soon.

conda-forge is also totally independent from this repo and you basically don't have to care about it if you don't want to. But if you like the idea you could add these instructions as the default one to install cadnano in your documentation.

We are planing to do some DNA origami stuff in our lab soon and people not being all developers and having all different kind of OS make me write this cadnano recipe for conda-forge.

(also waiting for the next cadnano release you could add a setup.py to the old code (devlegacy tag) so I could push this version to conda-forge in the meantime)