Description for the conda-forge page

[jacobwilliams]

Comment:

Since there are so many different ways to compile IPOPT, it would be great to have a description on the conda-forge page that explains things like:

• what compiler was used?
• what third-party solvers and other code were used (and are there license implication of that?)
• what compile options were used?

Probably a user could find this info in this repo somewhere? But it's hard to find.

[moorepants]

The README here is auto-generated, so there isn't really a place for info like this. I guess you could edit the long description with some info and it would at least be packaged with the binaries.

The basic answer is that we use the compiler tool chain for conda forge that is all explained in conda forge's documentation. This varies per OS and build.

mumps is supported (and possibly paridiso if you switch to mkl instead of openblas). Those may be the only solvers we can distribute legally with conda forge's binaries.

All compile options are in the recipe in this repo.

[jacobwilliams]

I was talking about the Description section here: https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/ipopt

Some conda-forge packages have text there, so there should be a way to do it (i have no idea how, but could look into it).

[moorepants]

There is a description value in the meta.yaml file.

[moorepants]

See here: https://docs.conda.io/projects/conda-build/en/latest/resources/define-metadata.html#about-section