## 📰 Custom Issue <!-- Provide a clear description of what the issue is, and we'll try our best to help 😀 --> A small contributor quality of life improvement. [By default, `conda env create` looks for the definition file at `environment.yml`](https://docs.conda.io/projects/conda/en/stable/commands/env/create.html#conda.cli.conda_argparse-generate_parser-named-arguments). If we move the symbolic link `requirements/iris.yml` to `environment.yml` in the base directory, intead of ``` conda env create --file=requirements/iris.yml ``` we can just do ``` conda env create ``` This is also where other projects I have contributed to put their conda yml. Standardisation makes it easier for new contributors to find https://github.com/SciTools/cartopy/blob/main/environment.yml https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/blob/main/environment.yml https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/main/environment.yml
📰 Custom Issue
A small contributor quality of life improvement.
By default,
conda env createlooks for the definition file atenvironment.yml. If we move the symbolic linkrequirements/iris.ymltoenvironment.ymlin the base directory, intead ofwe can just do
This is also where other projects I have contributed to put their conda yml. Standardisation makes it easier for new contributors to find
https://github.com/SciTools/cartopy/blob/main/environment.yml
https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/blob/main/environment.yml
https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/main/environment.yml