How to get the latest Polycomp version

To obtain the latest version of Polycomp, first be sure to have an updated version of the libpolycomp library. It is available at the link https://github.com/ziotom78/libpolycomp.

The source code for Polycomp is available at https://github.com/ziotom78/polycomp: download and install it using git (https://git-scm.com/). Refer to that page for any prerequisite. The typical sequence of commands used to install polycomp is the following:

git clone https://github.com/ziotom78/polycomp
cd polycomp
python3 setup.py build

If you want to install polycomp and the Python bindings to libpolycomp, you must run the command install:

python3 setup.py install

either as a super-user or using sudo.

Requisites

Polycomp requires the following tools:

• Python (both version 2 and 3 are fine);
• click (http://click.pocoo.org/5/), automatically installed by setup.py;
• numpy (http://www.numpy.org/), automatically installed by setup.py;
• Either astropy (version 0.4 or greater, http://www.astropy.org/, the preferred solution) or pyfits (http://www.stsci.edu/institute/software_hardware/pyfits). (The setup.py script installs Astropy.)