Replace distutils with setuptools in the Cython and python_minimal
interfaces. Add console_scripts option to generate OS specific scripts to run
ck2cti, mixmaster, and ctml_writer
Remove script files that are obsoleted by console_scripts from
setuptools. Remove installation of the script modules from SConstruct.
Fix Python installers so that when a prefix directory is specified on the
command line, setuptools doesn't throw an error. The setuptools documentation at
[1] prefers setting PYTHONUSERBASE rather than PYTHONPATH. Use normpath to avoid
bugs in setuptools on Windows [2]. Specify an empty "--prefix" if the compiler
is clang to fix a bug with Homebrew Python on Mac OSX [3].
[1]: https://pythonhosted.org/setuptools/easy_install.html#custom-installation-locations
[2]: http://stackoverflow.com/q/31629398
[3]: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-python/issues/187
Fixes issues with mismatched compilers between the Cython extension and the
cantera library, especially on OS X. Improves build dependency resolution to
eliminate unnecessary recompilation of _cantera.cpp.
This includes automatic conversion of the samples from Python 3 syntax to Python
2 syntax when building the Python 2 version of the module and the "3to2" script
is available.
This module is compatible with both Python 2 and Python 3. Unlike the existing
Python module, this module directly utilizes the Cantera C++ interface,
bypassing the "clib" compatibility layer, as well as all of the direct use of
the Python C API.
Currently, this contains just enough to instantiate a ThermoPhase object from an
XML input file.