ScriptEditor - Conda environment

Hi @eirannejad ,

I opened here a new issue considering using Conda environment in ScriptEditor.
Please update here if there is a possibility to use :slight_smile:

We would really like to have this feature available.

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Yes, there are multiple issues with Conda. Because Python in Rhino runs in it own environment it can get confusing exact what is going on.

What is the specific problem in this case?

Many off the issues you see in this thread:

It is not really clear what we can do about all of it, although we are going to continue to look into it.

The issue is that a lot of researchers works like this:

  1. Create environment with python libraries needed for your project
  2. When you have another project you switch to another environment with different libraries installed for whatever reason such as using different python versions.
  3. When project ends you delete a conda environment.

That is a daily workflow:
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For library development you have only one configuration, but for research project many of them. Plus Conda takes care or all the linking during installation since pip not often can handle all the package configurations.

Support for conda environment for Rhino always pop out in the meetings already for 1 year. But there is not really anything we can do. Except of editable install to the rhino python directory.

Rhino ScriptEditor is awesome, but it could be more awesome with conda support :slight_smile:

In summary this is what I am describing, the middle is often the case at ETHZ: