Externalise dependencies? about ma-socratis

[ece7048]

How can I link them with the external dependences? ( I mean with the GitHub repositories?)

[willfurnass]

For the Python packages can you use versions available from https://pypi.org/ or do you need to use very recent development versions only available from GitHub or similar? If you can find what you need on pypi.org you can add those dependencies to a requirements.txt at the top level in your project. You could then add pip install -r requirements.txt to your setup instructions.

For C++/C dependencies you may be able to acquire some/all dependencies from Conda channels. If that's not the case then you might be able to use CMake to simplify the process of finding and using dependencies when building the C++ parts of your project. For more advice on using CMake I recommend booking a Code Clinic appointment as others in the RSE are much more experienced at using CMake.

[willfurnass]

Actually, after discussing this with colleagues I think it may be simplest to leave any C/C++ dependencies as part of this repo. I still think it's a good idea to externalise Python dependencies though.