On 31 October 2014 10:18, Cotter, Colin J <colin.cotter@imperial.ac.uk> wrote:
I still think that the install instructions for different systems should
be on entirely different pages.

This simply means having multiple sets of almost identical instructions to maintain. Are you volunteering to do the maintenance?
 

--cjc

On 30/10/14 09:56, Lawrence Mitchell wrote:
> Hi Brian,
>
> On 30/10/14 09:28, Brian Weston wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am trying to install PyOp2 on my Macbook (10.9) and I'm having an
>> issue. In my terminal, I typed:
>>
>> wget -O - https://github.com/OP2/PyOP2/raw/master/install.sh | sudo bash
>>
>> and at the end of my install log file:
>
> Hmmm, I'm not sure that we believe the install script will work on
> MacOS, it's pretty much specific to apt-based Linux systems, so I'm
> somewhat surprised it got this far.  On MacOS, we recommend obtaining a
> build environment for PyOP2 using homebrew.  Can you try following the
> instructions for install given here:
>
> http://firedrakeproject.org/obtaining_pyop2.html#obtaining-a-build-environment-on-mac-os
>
> Suggestions as to how to make the different install descriptions clearer
> very welcome.
>
> Unfortunately, this isn't an automated script, however, it's quite a
> short list.
>
> Once you have the build environment you can then install PETSc and
> petsc4py using pip.  With the homebrew setup we describe, you don't need
> to use sudo with pip.  With that out of the way you can then follow the
> instructions at
>
> http://firedrakeproject.org/obtaining_pyop2.html#building-pyop2
>
> To build PyOP2 itself.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Lawrence
>
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