AKakrymski·Nov 23, 2020
Does Anaconda not work on ARM? Anyone tried this yet:
https://github.com/conda-forge/miniforge/
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miniforge
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2 sourcesThere are Alpine [1] and Debian [2] miniconda images (within which you can `conda install python==3.8` and 2.7 and 3.4 in different conda envs)
[1] https://github.com/ContinuumIO/docker-images/blob/master/min...
[2] https://github.com/ContinuumIO/docker-images/blob/master/min...
If you build manylinux wheels with auditwheel [3], they should install without needing compilation for {CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, and Alpine}; though standard Alpine images have MUSL instead of glibc by default, this [4] may work:
echo "manylinux1_compatible = True" > $PYTHON_PATH/_manylinux.py
[3] https://github.com/pypa/auditwheel
[4] https://github.com/docker-library/docs/issues/904#issuecomme...
The miniforge docker images aren't yet [5][6] multi-arch, which means it's not as easy to take advantage of
all of the ARM64 / aarch64 packages that conda-forge bui
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[5] https://github.com/conda-forge/docker-images/issues/102#issu...
[6] https://github.com/conda-forge/miniforge/issues/20
There are i686 and x86-64 docker containers for building manylinux wheels that work with many distros:
https://github.com/pypa/manylinux/tree/master/docker
A multi-stage Dockerfile build can produce a wheel in the first stage and install that wheel (with `COPY --from=0`) in a later stage; leaving build dependencies out of the production environment for security and performance: https://docs.docker.com/develop/develop-images/multistage-bu...