Creating a Development Environment

cuSpatial follows the RAPIDS release schedule, so developers are encouraged to develop using the latest development branch of RAPIDS libraries that cuspatial depends on. Other cuspatial dependencies can be found in conda/environments/.

Maintaining a local development environment can be an arduous task, especially after each RAPIDS release. Most cuspatial developers today use rapids-compose to setup their development environment. It contains helpful scripts to build a RAPIDS development container image with the required dependencies and RAPIDS libraries automatically fetched and correctly versioned. It also provides script commands for simple building and testing of all RAPIDS libraries, including cuSpatial. rapids-compose is the recommended way to set up your environment to develop for cuspatial.

For developers who would like to build from conda or from source, see the build page.