I'm working outward from this conda-build example to eventually build a conda package of my own. (If you try it out, note that the meta.yaml in the example is out of date and you need to use a different meta.yaml; details in this issue.)
The source code in this conda-build example is an existing project called click, which seems to have a very specific structure with elements like tox.ini and setup.py and setup.cfg. It's hard for me to find definitive guidance on Conda's requirements or expectations about the structure of the source code anywhere in the conda-build docs, so I've just been changing one thing at a time starting from the working example and checking if it still works.
Each conda build command takes several minutes. It makes debugging slow and I've gotten impatient. How can I speed up conda build so that I can easily experiment with different inputs? There are tips to speed up conda environment solving here, but I'm not solving an environment; I'm building a package.
My package is pure Python, so I don't need to bother with any compiler details.
I use boa, which is an add-on to conda-build that will use Mamba as the solver instead (much faster solves). Once installed, one uses:
conda mambabuild
instead of
conda build
Not just me, but the entire Conda Forge CI has used boa for several months now.