I'm not against this, although we only just updated our miniconda baseline less than a month ago. Have you done a test build of the stack with the newer Anaconda? To do that use the -b option to bin/deploy with $MINICONDA3_VERSION set.

So sadly it looks like Miniconda does not have a 5.0 version yet. Just Anaconda.

It still might be worth installing your own Anaconda with the standard LSST conda packages, and then building lsst_distrib to see that everything works. That way you could adopt the RFC and then we would be waiting for the miniconda release (which must be happening).

Apparantly Miniconda 4.3.27 is Anaconda 5.0.

https://groups.google.com/a/continuum.io/forum/#!topic/anaconda/er1-w_udJ3w

Tested on lsst-dev and a build of lsst_apps (using lsstsw) works with devtoolset-6 and miniconda 4.3.27.

I had to make two minor tweaks to the build:

1. disable link-time-optimization (because Anaconda is compiled with GCC 7.2.0 which uses a newer LTO format than our current (new) GCC 6.3.1 compiler can handle)
2. manually remove MKL from the conda packages (because something went wrong in the ./bin/deploy script.

Both are minor enough, and no other issues have been raised, that I think we can adopt this RFC. The issues will however, of course, have to be resolved as part of the implementation ticket.

Modern Anaconda seems to work. Joshua Hoblitt are you happy with marking this RFC implemented?

Joshua Hoblitt are you happy to close this RFC?

Aye. It has been shipped.