Building BEANSp

Build and installation from this github repository

1. Clone the beans repository

   git clone https://github.com/adellej/beans
   cd beans
   

2. Create and activate a clean conda environment

   The example below will create an environment with python 3.13 (or newer), but beans should work with python 3.9 onwards.

   # optional: remove existing environment if needed - to start from scratch
   conda remove -n beans --all
   # create named conda environment beans with all requirements
   conda env create -f environment.yml
   conda activate beans
   

3. Install/upgrade pip, build and local install

   python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip
   python3 -m pip install --upgrade build
   

   # test build & local install
   # The "-e" install does not seem to be reliable for re-install on Linux
   #       - keeps pulling some old build from somewhere middlewhere.
   #         python -m pip install -e .*
   # This is more reliable:
   python3 -m build
   python3 -m pip install .
   

   Note: when working on the code, in case of doubts that recent changes got propagated, uninstall & purge the installed module _before_ pip install to ensure the installed version has all the recent modifications.

   python3 -m pip -v uninstall beansp
   python3 -m pip -v cache purge
   

   After this, in that enviroment, beansp just works from every directory, providing the conda environment is activated. Imports like:

   from beansp import Beans,beans
   

   (See test_sft_beans.py.)

Testing

Once you have compiled settle we recommend you run the test suite to check you have all the required dependencies and the code is operating as expected. To do this navigate to the top-level directory and type:

pytest

Run short functional test (SFT) manually

cd tests
python ./test_sft_beans.py

If the tests all pass then you are good to go!