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update the install guide #5066

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14 changes: 3 additions & 11 deletions doc/getting-started-guide/installing.rst
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- Python (3.7 or later)
- setuptools (40.4 or later)
- `numpy <http://www.numpy.org/>`__ (1.15 or later)
- `pandas <http://pandas.pydata.org/>`__ (0.25 or later)
- `numpy <http://www.numpy.org/>`__ (1.17 or later)
- `pandas <http://pandas.pydata.org/>`__ (1.0 or later)

.. _optional-dependencies:

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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- `sparse <https://sparse.pydata.org/>`_: for sparse arrays
- `pint <https://pint.readthedocs.io/>`_: for units of measure

.. note::

At the moment of writing, xarray requires a `highly experimental version of pint
<https://github.com/andrewgsavage/pint/pull/6>`_ (install with
``pip install git+https://github.com/andrewgsavage/pint.git@refs/pull/6/head)``.
Even with it, interaction with non-numpy array libraries, e.g. dask or sparse, is broken.

- Any numpy-like objects that support
`NEP-18 <https://numpy.org/neps/nep-0018-array-function-protocol.html>`_.
Note that while such libraries theoretically should work, they are untested.
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

A fixed-point performance monitoring of (a part of) our codes can be seen on
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`this page <https://tomaugspurger.github.io/asv-collection/xarray/>`__.
`this page <https://pandas.pydata.org/speed/xarray/>`__.
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Is this still running? I didn't know about it! And it looks like it hasn't run in 18 months?

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the last date I could find was 2019-12-13 (about 15 months ago). That's better than the previous link (which is dead), but of course we should only link to something that's working. For reference, I copied this link from the "contributing" guide.

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Shall we remove for the moment?

I think this was on a recent funding proposal so we'll hopefully have much more here soon...

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I think this was on a recent funding proposal so we'll hopefully have much more here soon...

Yes, the benchmarking work is on the NASA proposal

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I hid both links. Once we have a working setup we can uncomment them again.


To run these benchmark tests in a local machine, first install

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