The developers don't seem to be receptive. But fortunately a nix flake exists: https://github.com/marcus7070/cq-flake
Takes ages to compile thought so I advice you to either be patient or add the cache.
I already have python installed. Why do I need anaconda? What is anaconda? "A data science toolkit" (from their website) ? Why do I need that? Why can't I just "pip install cadquery" and expect it to work?
It turns out conda is an alternative package manager for python, and cadquery is only distributed via conda, not pip. I'm surprised this basic bit of information is (still) not explained in the docs.
The issue you created finally explained _why_ to me, so thanks for that :)
The problem is that cadquery depends on OpenCascade Technology (OCCT), a 3D geometry library. A full build is ~1.5GB, and it is the reason why the download for CadQuery is so big. PyPI is not meant for such large packages, and currently has no mechanism to allow for out of bounds binary downloads.
That said, if you need to mix various modules on conda it can really be a challenge to find a conflict-free configuration, I agree.
They are pretty hostile to pypi devs with regards to the fact they were asking pypi to distribute their 1Gb+ python packages, rather than trying to modularize their packages to make it easier to distribute.
https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery/issues/153#issuecomment...
NLTK has a method so the library can be installed through pypi and the data can be downloaded through the following method:
import ntlk
ntkl.download()