Publish tixi on PyPI

[anpari]

I recently had the issue that I couldn't share some of our tools that have a dependency on tixi with partners that have no access to Anaconda (mandated by their IT department). Instead of fixing this issue manually by copy/pasting the relevant files (which comes with its own difficulties), it would be great to have tixi available on PyPI. I have talked to multiple people who had the same issue.

[joergbrech]

Thanks for opening an issue here. 💐 I agree that this would be convenient.

But it would require a bit of work, as we would have to translate our build process from the Anaconda way to using a combination of CMake and setuptools and setup the automation of publishing to PyPI with every new release. Currently, the conda package for tixi3 is built from here: https://github.com/DLR-SC/tigl-conda using Github Actions.

Unfortunately, we currently don't have a lot of ressources we can put into this. But of course, any contribution is highly appreciated 😁

[danieljuschus]

I would also be very much in favour of this! We are trying to avoid using conda, and haven't been successful yet in installing it without conda.

[rahiq1000]

I came across the same issue. Would be great if this is solved in the future