Currently MrMustard depends on Strawberry Fields. The dependency is only for using the Wigner function plotting capabilities of SF, which are in turn just borrowed from qutip. It would be nice to remove this very onerous requirement and make MrM independent of SF. Ideally one can simply take this method
and turn it into a standalone function in the utils/graphics.py module.
This would simplify the installation of MrM and since both MrM and SF might require different versions of TF avoid potentially dependency entanglements.
ziofil
commented
2 years ago
Currently MrMustard depends on Strawberry Fields. The dependency is only for using the Wigner function plotting capabilities of SF, which are in turn just borrowed from qutip. It would be nice to remove this very onerous requirement and make MrM independent of SF. Ideally one can simply take this method
https://github.com/XanaduAI/strawberryfields/blob/2c27f1c1ebe4bc53866dbe0420c9a6bafda5aeb4/strawberryfields/backends/states.py#L725
and turn it into a standalone function in the
utils/graphics.pymodule.This would simplify the installation of MrM and since both MrM and SF might require different versions of TF avoid potentially dependency entanglements.