document (and upgrade) windows support

[ctb]

turns out we've supported windows for a little while, which I'd forgotten!

So people have been downloading sourmash-minimal on conda-forge (which supports Windows builds) and then installing extra deps themselves!

Interesting side note, we're getting more downloads of sourmash-minimal on Windows than on Mac OS X.

@luizirber is almost finished with conda-forge/sourmash-minimal-feedstock#26, which is adding in the rest of the dependencies from sourmash into sourmash-minimal; this will make sourmash-minimal a full sourmash package, with full? Windows support.

So I think we should:

• add documentation to ...somewhere about our Windows supprot.
• have someone (presumably me, with my fancy Windows VM) test out sourmash install and execution to verify that it actually works well

[luizirber]

#2879 adds windows wheels

[luizirber]

(we continue having more downloads on windows than macos)

[ctb]

this is probably a dumb question but - what is missing from the Windows install via sourmash-minimal? It seems like a fully functioning version of sourmash on my Mac laptop...

[luizirber]

Nothing. sourmash from bioconda is an alias, so anything we can do with linux/macos in conda-forge is also what we can do with windows.

[ctb]

ok! is this a situation where we should consider removing sourmash from bioconda and rename it on conda-forge, for, say, sourmash v5? Or just leave it as is because it's not hurting anyone? 😆

documentation still needed tho... sigh.

[luizirber]

ok! is this a situation where we should consider removing sourmash from bioconda and rename it on conda-forge, for, say, sourmash v5? Or just leave it as is because it's not hurting anyone? 😆

Previous times this sourmash/sourmash-minimal setup and biocontainers was mentioned:

• Sourmash failed to run with Python 3.7. #2820 (comment)
• sourmash not installing in binder: "No module named 'importlib.metadata'" error #2503 (comment)
• the original conda-forge migration issue: migrate conda package from bioconda to conda-forge #1004 (comment)

We have previous issues here (#502 (comment) #406 (comment)) from users of biocontainers, but I couldn't find a stats page like the one from conda-forge/bioconda to check how many downloads the images have. (does the "activity" in https://quay.io/repository/biocontainers/sourmash?tab=info mirrors downloads? Image also mirrored in https://gallery.ecr.aws/biocontainers/sourmash, but also no good info there)

I wonder if the solution in #2503 (comment) actually works, will try to open a PR in bioconda and see how it goes.

documentation still needed tho... sigh.

As in how to set up a dev environment? For general use we usually assume conda or pip are already installed and working, instructions wouldn't change for windows

[ctb]

thanks for all the updates!

documentation still needed tho... sigh.

As in how to set up a dev environment? For general use we usually assume conda or pip are already installed and working, instructions wouldn't change for windows

just that we support Windows. I don't think we say it anywhere.

[luizirber]

Err, I may have found stats for biocontainers, but I don't believe the 21.7M downloads number 😅
https://biocontainers.pro/tools/sourmash