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FeynCalc / feyncalc

Mathematica package for algebraic calculations in elementary particle physics.
https://feyncalc.github.io
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A mistake in wiki #160

Closed liuyonghao156 closed 2 years ago

liuyonghao156 commented 2 years ago

Under the Offline automatic installation section, the instruction given is

(*Change myPath accordingly! *)
myPath = "/home/vs/Downloads";
$PathToFCArc = FileNameJoin[{myPath,"feyncalc-master.zip"}];
$PathToFAArc = FileNameJoin[{myPath,"feynarts-mirror-master.zip"}];
Get[FileNameJoin[{myPath,"install.m"}]]
InstallFeynCalc[InstallFeynCalcDevelopmentVersion -> True]

However, definition of $Path's shall be announced only after importing install.m, so it should appear like

(*Change myPath accordingly! *)
myPath = "/home/vs/Downloads";
Get[FileNameJoin[{myPath,"install.m"}]]
$PathToFCArc = FileNameJoin[{myPath,"feyncalc-master.zip"}];
$PathToFAArc = FileNameJoin[{myPath,"feynarts-mirror-master.zip"}];
InstallFeynCalc[InstallFeynCalcDevelopmentVersion -> True]

Note that not people from all over the world has stable access to GitHub, so I think this part of the instruction should be carefully prepared and will be of great help ;)

vsht commented 2 years ago

Should be now fixed, thanks.

Note that not people from all over the world has stable access to GitHub, so I think this part of the instruction should be carefully prepared and will be of great help ;)

The thing is that this project is heavily lacking manpower and is conducted on a purely voluntary basis, i.e. there is absolutely no funding behind it and no one is paid/supported for maintaining FeynCalc. So unless there are users willing to report issues and test bug fixes, such problems can only get fixed only if I accidentally stumble upon them.