JOSS: Dependencies?

[bonh]

I cannot locate a list of dependencies.

Starting from vanilla conda env required around 340 MB of download. Just want to make sure that this is on purpose: Are all these packages pulled by conda really required?

@openjournals/joss-reviews#7710

[bonh]

Ah, there is a requirements.txt with dependencies. Perhaps it would be helpful to include the list in the readme.

[ebknudsen]

Consider it done.

fixed by 469e7df

[bonh]

Starting from vanilla conda env required around 340 MB of download. Just want to make sure that this is on purpose: Are all these packages pulled by conda really required?

Can you comment on that one?

[bonh]

What about moab?

[ebknudsen]

moab is indeed necessary - at least for now. For the future some colleagues and I are working on a replacement base solely on h5py. It amount to reverse-engineering the moab-infrastructure with next to no documentation however, so it is slow going.

[ebknudsen]

For sure the biggest dependency will likely be OpenCASCADE, which is used by cadquery (and gmsh).
Of course numpy is a fairly large on at that, but is pretty likely to already be installed/downloaded anyway (IMHO).

The inclusion of gmsh creates a dep. on some Xorg libs, which are not at all needed by this project. One would have to repackage gmsh to not include its GUI do avoid that, but I would consider that out of scope for this project.