Difficulties during install

[sqbl]

Operating System: Windows10
Python version: 3.7.9 (from anaconda)

Description
Trying to install gryffin in a fresh anaconda env failed. Specifically, gryffin is coursing issues due to a "/" in it's "setup.py". Furthermore, gryffin has quiet many failing dependencies that will need to be installed "manually" by the user (e.g. the entire C++ environment, and specific version numbers of torch).
This issue arose during installation of "summit" which has gryffin as a dependency. (See sustainable-processes/summit#71)

Solution(s)
After manually removing the last "/" in setup.py line 50 it resolved the error.
The C++ environment was installed as described here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/50210015
And the specific version of torch was installed by "pip install -f https://download.pytorch.org/whl/torch_stable.html torch===1.4.0" (notice the three "=")

I'll be happy to push a fix for the "/" in setup.py, but I don't know if that will break the install on other platforms (linux/mac)?

[FlorianHase]

Hi sqbl,
thank you for reporting this issue. We updated the installation procedure and hope that you will find it easier to install the package now. Gryffin is mostly developed for linux platforms, so the windows version might be a bit bumpy at this point. We would appreciate if you keep reporting any issues that you run into (although we hope that there won't be too many, of course!)

[marcosfelt]

Can someone with a windows computer test installing with this change I made: https://github.com/sustainable-processes/gryffin/blob/4a45f57fe552b3b3a786a57105fccd41957cad3a/setup.py#L37

[sqbl]

Can someone with a windows computer test installing with this change I made: https://github.com/sustainable-processes/gryffin/blob/4a45f57fe552b3b3a786a57105fccd41957cad3a/setup.py#L37

Hi,
I got the option to try the installation again on a windows machine. The installation of Gryffin itself went well. So the changes worked on my machine.
Still, the installation of the c++ environment and the specific needs wrt torch might still be putting some users off, though.