Developer guide

• Contributing to Conda
  • Hosted on GitHub
  • Code of Conduct
  • Conda Contributor License Agreement
  • Ways to contribute
• Development Environment
  • Static Code Analysis
  • Testing
• Releasing
• Architecture
  • Level 1: Context
  • Level 2: Container
  • Level 3: Component
  • Level 4: Code
• Deep dive: conda install
  • Command line interface
  • Fetching the index
  • Solving the install request
  • Generating the transaction and the corresponding actions
  • Download and extraction
  • Populating the prefix
  • Linking the files in the environment
  • Action groups and actions, in detail
  • Conclusion
• Deep dive: conda init and activate
  • Conda initialization
  • Conda activate
  • Activation/deactivation scripts
• Deep dive: conda config and Context
  • Anatomy of the Context class
  • Setting values in the different origins
• Deep dive: solvers
  • MatchSpec vs PackageRecord
  • Remote state: the index
  • Local state: the prefix and context
  • The high-level logic in conda.cli.install
  • Early exit tasks
  • Details of Solver.solve_final_state()
  • Details of conda.resolve.Resolve