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Compatibility with the Fortran package manager
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Currently, we support CMake and meson as build system, which work nicely for our purpose, however even meson has a significant entry barrier for developers. Having a solution which allows to immediately kick-off with the development of xtb
and run the resulting binary from without configuring a binary would significantly speed up the development.
Describe the solution you'd like
The Fortran package manager (fpm) provides a solution which could compile and run most of xtb
. We need to investigate whether there are features used in meson and CMake which cannot be supported by fpm. The fpm build would be primarily a developer feature and make xtb
easier accessible, the deployment of the release would still happen with meson.