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[Andy Ray Terrel <andy.terrel@xxxxxxxxx>]

pip install is nice and supported by PETSc even.  Although I doubt it
will be the PETSc FEniCS needs with all the bells and whistles.

-- Andy

On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Johan Hake <hake.dev@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I would advocate to add releases of pure Python packages in FEniCS to
> the PyPI Server. Packages can then be installed by:
>
>   pip install {ffc,ufl,fiat,aso}
>
> PyPI also integrates well with distutils. One can for example include
> dependencies in the setup(...) call in the setup.py file. For example
> can Fiat's dependency on ScientificPython be indicated by adding:
>
>   setup(...
>      requires = ['ScientificPython'])
>
> If FIAT is installed using pip install ScientificPython will also be
> installed.
>
> I have not added any packages to the server myself but the procedure
> looks pretty straightforward. It requires a PyPI account on
> pypi.python.org though.
>
> Johan
>
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