INSTALL.txt

Two options for installing:

User installation
-----------------

If you want to install the binary build of holopy on your system, run 

python setup.py install

as root.  This will build the packages and install holopy in the local
dist-packages directory of your python installation, so that python
will automatically be able to find it when you type "import holopy".

If you are a developer, you might not want to do this because you
might eventually find yourself with two versions of holopy on your
system, one installed globally and one installed locally.  An
alternative is the:

Developer installation
----------------------

If you are going to hack on holopy, you probably only want to compile the
scattering extensions.  Let's say you install it in
/home/me/holopy.  Then cd to "/home/me/holopy" and run

python setup.py build_ext --inplace

This puts the extensions inside the source tree, so that you can work
directly from /home/me/holopy.  You will need to add
/home/me/holopy to your python_path for python to find the
module when you import it.