Conda recipes for installing packages from the Torch ecosystem.

NOTE: No longer maintained.

To install packages

# Install anaconda if you don't have it (instructions here for OS X)
wget http://repo.continuum.io/miniconda/Miniconda-latest-MacOSX-x86_64.sh
sh Miniconda-latest-MacOSX-x86_64.sh -b -p $HOME/anaconda

# Add anaconda to your $PATH
export PATH=$HOME/anaconda/bin:$PATH

# Install Lua & Torch
conda install lua=5.2 lua-science -c alexbw

# Available versions of Lua: 2.0, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
# 2.0 is LuaJIT

To build packages

# Install anaconda if you don't have it (instructions here for OS X)
wget http://repo.continuum.io/miniconda/Miniconda-latest-MacOSX-x86_64.sh
sh Miniconda-latest-MacOSX-x86_64.sh -b -p $HOME/anaconda

# Add anaconda to your $PATH
export PATH=$HOME/anaconda/bin:$PATH

# Get the newest version of conda, as well as some conda build tools
conda update conda -y
conda install conda-build anaconda-client -y

# Build all packages
sh build_all.sh

# Ideally, all you have to do to install everything is this
conda install lua=5.2 lua-science

TODO:

• https://github.com/AlexMili/torch-dataframe
• https://github.com/twitter/torch-ipc
• https://github.com/twitter/torch-distlearn
• https://github.com/twitter/torch-dataset

Resources:

• Making packages relocatable (LuaJIT hard-codes path)

• Build instructions for luarocks

• Build instructions for Lua

• Patching files with git diffs is finicky

• Linking against readline (need a few extra flags, and link against -lncursesw, not -lncurses)

• Upgrading old Debian. Also this.

Misc notes:

metadata:ns_cfg() — defines for YAML directives
main_build: — defines version numbers 
environ:get_lua_include_dir() — uses version numbers to locate the include directory
config:Config._get_lua — uses version numbers to locate the binary
This is where the linked package name is converted into what is used