Conda package

[hadim]

Following #25 (comment), a conda package would be a nice way to distribute precompiled package for Linux, Windows and Mac OSX.

For this, a conda recipe needs to be submitted as a PR to https://github.com/conda-forge/staged-recipes.

[fmassa]

Hi @hadim ,

Thanks a lot for your help with the conda packaging.

I was giving it a second thought, and I realized that without having proper versioning of the library, it would maybe not be a good idea to have a conda package for now.
I think that having versioning in maskrcnn-benchmark is a good thing to have, but we are still moving fast and improving a few things so that a version might not be best for now.

What do you think?

[hadim]

The PR for the conda recipe is here: conda-forge/staged-recipes#6951

It won't be merged before the project as a Git tag with a version anyway so it's really up to you.

But even, if things will change a lot/move fast you can still make a release (just create a Git tag), so users have a reference commit to base their applications on. It's always more convenient than using a commit hash.

Versioning the lib as 0.0.1 or 0.1.0 is ok and will show users that those versions are not definitive.