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Suggest to use conda and miniforge instead of mamba and mambaforge #1653

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@traversaro traversaro commented May 16, 2024

Back in time when we started using conda (~2020/2021?), the conda tool was extremely slow, and that is the reason why mamba was developed, and why we suggested everyone to use mamba. Similarly, we suggested to install mambaforge as a distribution instead of miniforge3, as mambaforge contained by default. See #847 for the related PR.

Since those days, a lot of changed. conda has been updated to use the mamba solver, and so it has become much faster and more and less as fast as mamba . This is true that as long as you have a recent enough conda, to verify that check that the commands conda config --show solver returns solver: libmamba, see https://www.anaconda.com/blog/a-faster-conda-for-a-growing-community .

For this reason, several things has started to change:

So, also in view of the conda/pixi training that I eventually need to do and to reduce the confusion of users, I have the intention to start recommending the use of conda (in place of mamba) and miniforge3 (in place of mambaforge) everywhere in our docs, and this PR is the first step in that direction.

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traversaro commented May 16, 2024

generate-conda-packages CI job: https://github.com/robotology/robotology-superbuild/actions/runs/9109800751 .
matlab-one-line-install CI job: https://github.com/robotology/robotology-superbuild/actions/runs/9109828346 (as this PR modified the one line matlab install script)

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