π Christmas release of HELIOS++ π
HELIOS++ is now on conda-forge: https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/helios π
The new recommended way to install HELIOS++ is via the conda or mamba package managers. We recommend mamba or micromamba.
mamba install -c conda-forge helios
or
conda install -c conda-forge helios
Alternatively, you can choose the appropriate standalone installer for your operating system from the assets below. This will install HELIOS++ and add two start menu shortcuts:
- Helios++ Terminal Session
- Helios++ Jupyter Session
Changelog:
- New modernized CMake build system that allows Python packaging
- Works on Windows, MacOS (not officially supported) and Linux
- HELIOS++ is on conda-forge and also comes with standalone installers
- Possibility to specify multiple asset directories to locate both packaged and user supplied XMLs
- New regression testing framework
- Extended support for dynamic scenes: swap on repeat. Check out the documentation in the Wiki and example 16 of our gallery.
- Several bug and memory leak fixes
This release is also published on zenodo with the following DOI: