[conda] Setting up a dev environment for conda-build...

[James Abbott]

Hello,

I'm trying to setup a development environment for hacking on an issue in
conda-build, but don't see any docs on how to setup conda-build from git,
other than the comments on the readme regarding testing.

I've tried setting this up in a new conda environment to avoid clobbering
my existing environment, and am presuming that both conda-build and
conda_build_test_recipe need to be installed with setup.py, but am failing
to get conda-build's 'setup.py install' to run successfully. My process is
as follows:

conda create -n conda-build
source activate conda-build
conda install pytest pytest-cov mock
git clone ***@github.com:jamesabbott/conda-build.git
git clone https://github.com/conda/conda_build_test_recipe.git
cd conda-build/
python setup.py build
python setup.py install

which results in the following failure:

====================================================================================================
[snip]

Installed
/Users/jabbott/miniconda3/envs/conda-build/lib/python3.6/site-packages/Jinja2-2.10-py3.6.egg
Searching for conda-verify
Reading https://pypi.python.org/simple/conda-verify/
Couldn't find index page for 'conda-verify' (maybe misspelled?)
Scanning index of all packages (this may take a while)
Reading https://pypi.python.org/simple/
No local packages or working download links found for conda-verify
error: Could not find suitable distribution for
Requirement.parse('conda-verify')
====================================================================================================

Indeed, looking at https://pypi.python.org/simple/conda-verify/ it seems
it really does not exist....

Am I going about this the wrong way, and if so can anyone give me a pointer
on how I should be setting this up?

Many thanks
James