Hi Christoph,

Yes homebrew and macports are no longer a must.

For me a convenient routine is to install Anaconda distribution for python on Mac then

install kwant via conda. It also has the advantage that one doesn't need bother

with the MUMPS dependence.

Best,

Xin Dai

2016-08-30 17:52 GMT+08:00 Christoph Groth <christoph.groth@cea.fr>:

Hi everyone,

Are there any Mac enthusiasts out there who would volunteer to help us to maintain the packaging of Kwant on that important platform?

The packaging of Kwant for MacOS X [1] is outdated [2]. Both homebrew [3] and macports [4] seem to be still at the stage of Kwant 1.0. This is because, to my knowledge, none of the devs of Kwant is using a Mac any longer.

There’s the Conda packaging by Bas Nijholt. Does this mean that homebrew and macports are no longer needed?

Mac users, raise your voice!

Christoph

[1] https://kwant-project.org/install#mac-os-x
[2] https://www.mail-archive.com/kwant-discuss%40kwant-project.org/msg00939.html
[3] https://github.com/michaelwimmer/homebrew-kwant
[4] https://downloads.kwant-project.org/macports/