Provide a single setup.py to install the full simphony-openfoam plugin

[itziakos]

There should be only a single top level setup.py that will make sure that the necessary extensions and subpackages are build and installed. The current setup requires to manually build a python extension and install two separate packages. This makes it very difficult (if not impossible) to install and update the simphony-openfoam package using pip (the standard python package installer).

The single setup.py can build the c extension and install a single package. Not two separate as it happens now.

related links:

• https://docs.python.org/2/extending/building.html
• https://pythonhosted.org/setuptools/index.html

[itziakos]

It makes it very difficult to integrate openfoam with the rest of the simphony-framework.

[itziakos]

Corrected description of the issue.

[itziakos]

For the moment integration can use a workaround but the package setup should be streamlined in one of the future releases.

[ahashibon]

totally agree!

[jmarcelogimenez]

In the PR #23 we have solved it. Now, only a single setup.py is employed for the installation.

[itziakos]

is there a reason why an Extension command (see https://docs.python.org/2/extending/building.html) was not used?

[itziakos]

Even after #23 was merged there are still two setup.py and the main one calls the second through a bash script. This is not recommended since we are just discarding on the setuptools machinery and we are still installing two separate packages (this is similar the workaround that we have setup in simphony-framework). The two setup.py files should be consolidated and use setuptools so that binary extensions and packages can be built as expected.

[stefanoborini]

Still on topic with involvement of EDM and therefore #100