conda-forge package?

[lilyminium]

Thanks for maintaining and updating DSSP, @cbaakman! Would you consider adding a package to conda-forge to make it easier to install?

[cbaakman]

Dear @lilyminium, for easy installation I must refer you to the option to build from docker. This requires docker-compose and docker to be installed.

Build with:

docker-compose build

Run with:

docker-compose run dssp ./mkdssp ...

[lilyminium]

Thanks @cbaakman, I had a go, another good thing to mention is that you need to mount a directory for the local files to be available. However, I'd rather not use Docker because I'm mostly interested in installing DSSP locally and having conda manage dependencies -- I'm hoping to make a wrapper for it the same way gmx do_dssp does, but for the Python MDAnalysis library, and having the package on conda-forge would make it much easier to integrate.

I realise you already have a lot on your plate maintaining dssp/hssp/xssp, so if you are alright with DSSP being on conda-forge but not interested in setting up the recipe or maintaining it, I'd be happy to help out with either task :-)

[cbaakman]

That's right, you need to mount a directory as volume in docker, in order to work with files outside the container.

@lilyminium you are free to make a conda-forge wrapper and send us a pull request. Just make sure the c++ source code is left intact.

[lilyminium]

Thanks @cbaakman! conda-forge recipes are submitted as PRs to conda-forge's the staged-recipe repo. Would you be happy to maintain it? (the recipe must list a maintainer)

[cbaakman]

Yes, you may set my profile name as a maintainer for the dssp recipe.

[joaomcteixeira]

Hi,
How has this issue ended up? Is DSSP already deployed on conda-forge?
best,

[lilyminium]

Sorry @joaomcteixeira, not yet, it fell off my to-do list for a while. I've opened a PR conda-forge/staged-recipes#11776

[joaomcteixeira]

Thanks @lilyminium 👍