Conda installation?

[uturuncoglu]

I am not sure if there is a plan or not but it would be nice to have capability to install pyschism through Conda. In UFS Coastal workflow, we have packages that are already installed with Conda and installing pyschism with pip is also installing lots of duplicated modules. So, it would be nice to have flexibility to install pyschism also with Conda.

[josephzhang8]

@brey: do you have any updates on the conda install? Thx

[mansurjisan]

Hi @uturuncoglu , I installed PySCHISM in the MSU Hercules cluster. First, I created a Conda environment, and then, within this Conda environment, I used pip to install PySCHISM. It's not a perfect solution, as it doesn't fully address the module duplication issue you mentioned, but it does provide a way to use PySCHISM within a Conda-managed environment.

For detailed installation steps and discussion, I've documented the process in a GitHub issue. You can find it here:
https://github.com/noaa-ocs-modeling/SurgeTeamCoordination/issues/545#issuecomment-2284884498

I am also working on developing an ecFlow based workflow where I can use pyschism to generate input files for SCHISM and UFS Coastal RT case: https://github.com/mansurjisan/SCHISM-ecFLOW/tree/main/ecf

[uturuncoglu]

@mansurjisan Thanks. Yes. I did the same thing but I am not sure it is a good practice to use conda and pip together. It is not a big deal but it would be nice to have conda support too.

[brey]

@brey: do you have any updates on the conda install? Thx

We are providing a conda package for schism not pyschism. It shouldn't be difficult to build one for psychism as well. We can support. Who wants to be the maintainer?