Hi all, I've compiled conda packages for kwant (and it's dependencies) for Python 2.7, 3.4, and 3.5 for both Linux and OS X. They can be found on anaconda.org/basnijholt/kwant. The advantage of having these packages is that they are already compiled. Conda is a packaging tool and installer that aims to do more than what pip does; handle library dependencies outside of the Python packages as well as the Python packages themselves. In this way you won't have to install any other dependencies, so when you have a fresh Ubuntu install, all you need to do is install miniconda <http://conda.pydata.org/miniconda.html> or Anaconda <https://www.continuum.io/downloads> and run: conda install -c https://conda.anaconda.org/basnijholt kwant That's it! Let me know if you run into any trouble. Best, Bas Nijholt
Hi Bas, Thanks for packaging Kwant for conda! Do these packages include MUMPS? Do you think you could continue to maintain these packages for a while? If yes, and if no grave problems show up after a few days or so, you would be very welcome to update http://kwant-project.org/install. (You can either clone the Kwant website repository or we can give you directly write access to it.) I think conda will be especially interesting for people using OS X and Windows. It would be really nice if we could provide some easier way to install Kwant on Windows. Do you know how much work that would be? Christoph
Hi Christoph, They include MUMPS, Scotch, and Metis. I do plan to maintain these, since for the coming 4 years I’ll definitely be working with Kwant and probably on my Mac. It’s definitely useful to use conda, installing a complete Python environment plus kwant is now done in ~2 minutes. I’ll give compiling for Windows a try some day, however probably I won’t make time for this in the coming weeks. Bas Nijholt On Fri, 19 Feb 2016 at 10:56 Christoph Groth < mailto:Christoph Groth <christoph.groth@cea.fr>
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Hi Bas, Thanks for packaging Kwant for conda! Do these packages include MUMPS? Do you think you could continue to maintain these packages for a while? If yes, and if no grave problems show up after a few days or so, you would be very welcome to update http://kwant-project.org/install. (You can either clone the Kwant website repository or we can give you directly write access to it.) I think conda will be especially interesting for people using OS X and Windows. It would be really nice if we could provide some easier way to install Kwant on Windows. Do you know how much work that would be? Christoph
Bas Nijholt wrote:
I do plan to maintain these, since for the coming 4 years I’ll definitely be working with Kwant and probably on my Mac.
Great! So once you feel confident that your packages are production-ready, could you please update the installation instructions on the website? Thanks, Christoph
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