JOSS: mkl not available for mac silicon OSX 15

[jgostick]

I have recently started using a Mac (mixed feelings about that), but it has let me see a different side of things RE: installing software.

I am unable to even do the simple pip install pore2chip on my MacBook Air with OSX15 and Arm64 architecture. This is because the MKL package is not available, which is required by pypardiso.

We have the problem with openpnm and porespy too, so we don't make pypardiso mandatory. There are other good solvers like pyamg which can be used, they are just a bit less robust. I guess my suggestion would be to remove pypardiso as a hard requirement and have a fall-back option for systems where it is not found.

[jgostick]

I did a 'find-all' on the code base and found that pypardiso is not imported or used anywhere. Did I miss something? It would solve this issue if you could just remove the requirement.

BTW, I also checked to see if any of OpenPNM's solver functionality was being used, but I did not find any, which also supports the idea of removing the pypardiso requirement.

[maruti-iitm]

@jgostick This is very helpful. Thanks a lot! @aramyxt @maruti-iitm will investigate this and resolve the issue.