A couple of months ago, I created a Mac OS X package manager for High Energy Physics programs. It’s called Homebrew-hep and is just an extension of the excellent Homebrew package manager. The homepage is http://davidchall.github.io/homebrew-hep/.
This should make it easier to install packages which usually come with documentation pages dedicated to ‘Mac Installation issues’. A couple of great things about the package manager are:
- it will keep track of dependencies on other packages, e.g. if you install Herwig++ it will install HepMC and ThePEG too!
- it also keeps things in /usr/local/ so you often don’t need to worry about setting environment variables.
- it can tell you if you need to update to the latest versions.
I wanted to wait until after a bit of testing before announcing it, but everything seems to work well. I invite you to use it and let me know your experiences. Also, let me know if there are any packages you’d like included, and I’ll try my best.
higgs hunter 