Installation of RASCIL on macos

RASCIL is well-suited to running under macos. Installation should be straightforward. Although the pip approach can be used, we recommend use of Anaconda https://www.anaconda.com It is necessary to install python-casacore in a separate step. The steps required are:

conda create -n rascil_env python=3.9
conda activate rascil_env
conda install -c conda-forge python-casacore
git clone https://gitlab.com/ska-telescope/external/rascil.git
cd rascil
make install_requirements

We have specified python 3.9 since this currently is the preferred and supported version.

Finally, put the following definitions in your .bashrc:

export RASCIL=/path/to/rascil
export PYTHONPATH=$RASCIL:$PYTHONPATH