wigwam

A humane dependency fetcher and builder for scientific projects, written in Python.

Installation

For installation instructions please check http://wigwam.in.

Commands

• wigwam init - initializes an empty Wigwamfile, an empty .wigwam directory structure in the current directory
• wigwam lint - verifies that all mandatory and optional dependencies are explicitly listed in Wigwamfile and appends the missing ones upon user's wish. Useful after manual modification of Wigwamfile and modifying feaures of certain libraries and before making the Wigwamfile public
• wigwam build - fetches and builds all dependencies specified in the Wigwamfile located in the current directory into .wigwam
• wigwam install packagename - fetches the package, appends it to the Wigwamfile located in the current directory and runs build
• wigwam clean - cleans .wigwam/src and .wigwam/prefix and removes .wigwam/download_configure_build.generated.sh
• wigwam in - executes .wigwam/wigwam_activate.sh and makes available the installed binaries and libraries

Wigwamfile

Special files and directories

• Wigwamfile - specifies the packages Wigwam will fetch and build
• .wigwam - the hidden directory containing all Wigwam artifacts
• wigs - where user-provided wigs live
• .wigwam/prefix - where all packages binaries get installed
• .wigwam/src - where the package source trees get unpacked
• .wigwam/logs - where detailed package installation logs go