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Conda installation on Apple silicon has many quirks, and requires users that already have Conda installed to read through a lengthy FAQ page.
As people start using newer Macs, we will see more users being caught in this complicated installation path.
Possible solutions
Wait until a full Nextstrain installation on arm64 Conda is possible. This means all of the following which currently don't support arm64/noarch must add support for that:
Provide a new "Conda" runtime which gets set up and updated independently from any existing installation. This was @tsibley's idea mentioned during our installation discussion meeting. This would use the Intel installer for all Macs, in line with our current recommendation. Update: this is happening over at Managed Conda runtime cli#218.
Provide "native" Docker support which will hopefully make Docker runtime speeds comparable to current Native runtime speeds on Apple silicon. This would require finishing off Build multi-arch image with amd64 + arm64 for M1 Macs docker-base#35 and doing some benchmarking.
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Context
Currently,
As people start using newer Macs, we will see more users being caught in this complicated installation path.
Possible solutions
Wait until a full Nextstrain installation on
arm64
Conda is possible. This means all of the following which currently don't supportarm64
/noarch
must add support for that:This could be achieved if bioconda adds support for compiling recipes on
arm64
, which is something @corneliusroemer brought up in Slack, but timeline is pretty much out of our hands here.Provide a new "Conda" runtime which gets set up and updated independently from any existing installation. This was @tsibley's idea mentioned during our installation discussion meeting. This would use the Intel installer for all Macs, in line with our current recommendation. Update: this is happening over at Managed Conda runtime cli#218.
Provide "native" Docker support which will hopefully make Docker runtime speeds comparable to current Native runtime speeds on Apple silicon. This would require finishing off Build multi-arch image with amd64 + arm64 for M1 Macs docker-base#35 and doing some benchmarking.
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: