[maint] Add whether napari was installed using conda to napari info #7844
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Motivation:
Particularly when the plugin manager is involved, there can be differences between napari from conda and from PyPI.
We ask for
napari --info
, but this doesn't include how napari was installed, so then we need to followup with that question.Description
Adds a simple check for napari metadata file in the conda-meta to
utils/info
. If it exists, it's safe to assume that napari was installed using conda. If true, this is then used to indicate that napari was from conda. I also added a test for this.Here's an example output (i 'touched' a sham json file):