Help needed: Kwant on the Mac
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 The packaging of Kwant for MacOS X [1] is outdated [2].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/
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>:
Xin Dai wrote:
Thanks for this information. If conda works for everybody (as it seems), I propose to phase out homebrew and macports: less maintenance for us. As a first step, we could replace homebrew/macports by conda in the installation instructions. (There is no need to actually remove the homebrew/macports repositories of course.) Does anyone see any problems with this? Couldn't conda be used for Windows as well? That's another OS where the installation could be simplified.
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