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pip for OSX

Open sogoogos opened this issue 6 years ago • 5 comments

Is there any reason pygmo does not have pip option for OSX? Any plan to provide it?

sogoogos avatar Oct 25 '19 05:10 sogoogos

No plans at the moment, as none of the core developers is an OSX user.

We are also considering discontinuing the pip packages altogether, as they are becoming increasingly unwieldy for us to support for a variety of reasons.

Out of curiosity, did you consider using the conda packages of pagmo/pygmo on OSX instead of pip?

Of course, if someone takes charge of building/maintaining the OSX packages we would be happy to give all the necessary support. PRs welcome as usual :)

bluescarni avatar Oct 25 '19 08:10 bluescarni

Do you have any news about pygmo available for OSX with pip ? This is useful when creating packages that use pygmo as dependency

geoffreyp avatar Apr 23 '20 13:04 geoffreyp

We have discontibued the windows pip packages and currently only maintain the linux ones. I do not see any major issues in having pip packages on osx (like the linux ones), but we do not have plans to create them as long as there is not a strong and motivated request. Our manpower is currently allocated elsewhere.

darioizzo avatar Apr 23 '20 14:04 darioizzo

None of the core devs are regular OSX users, and none of us ever built a wheel for OSX.

This is one area where the help of the community would be highly beneficial and appreciated.

bluescarni avatar Apr 24 '20 10:04 bluescarni

Hi guys,

Thanks a lot for this amazing library. I am currently developing a software tool to analyse galaxies and I was planning to include pygmo as the main optimiser for swarm intelligence optimisation in the software.

Unfortunately, all the staff in my astronomy department (and the majority of astronomers I know) are macOS users. I am the only one using Linux. This means that astronomers who do not have the technical expertise to install and use conda may face issues if they want to perform swarm optimisation using my software tool.

Having said that, I totally understand that building macOS packages for pip can be a pain. Unfortunately I do not own a macOS machine to contribute this feature, nor I have time at the moment. I will subscribe to this thread in case someone contributes this functionality.

Thanks!

bek0s avatar Apr 25 '20 07:04 bek0s