conda: separate base envs by Python version #182
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downgrading the root env from Python 3.6 to 2.7 (or even 3.5 in some cases) is always very expensive and can fail due to the complicated transaction.
This fixes issues where builds fail when Python 2 is requested.
What I'd like to do eventually, and we will *need* to do once certain packages start dropping py2 support, is to handle Python 2 differently by putting it in a different env, like we do for pip. But for now, it's simpler to handle Python 2 the same as Python 3.Python 2 is handled specially by putting it in a different env, just like with requirements.txt.
closes #28