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The Sandia Engineering Analysis Code Access System (SEACAS) is a suite of preprocessing, postprocessing, translation, and utility applications supporting finite element analysis software using the Exodus database file format.
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Publish packaged exodus python bindings to PyPI #437

Open rndubs opened 7 months ago

rndubs commented 7 months ago

The initial work to build wheels from the exodus python bindings was done in https://github.com/sandialabs/seacas/pull/392

This issue is requesting for the packaged bindings to be published to PyPI as a wheel and sdist, preferably for both exodus3 and exomerge3.

mvlopri commented 7 months ago

This is backlogged work. Unfortunately, I am not sure when I will get to this due to other priorities currently. Could you give me an idea of priority of this?

rndubs commented 7 months ago

My opinion is that this issue is a blocker for python projects that wish to use exodus/exomerge as a dependency. We can build and maintain wheels for our own internal usage, but we can't distribute projects that use exodus/exomerge as a dependency to downstream users since they would then need to first build the bindings/wheels themselves from SEACAS, and this isn't standard practice in the python packaging ecosystem.

Without a distribution available from PyPI, several projects have implemented their own Exodus I/O solutions using netcdf4. Some of those even came from other Sandia projects. It seems like it would be best for everyone if we could all use a common Python API for Exodus I/O.

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