Kompanion

A portable toolbox setup for working in Scientific Computing under Windows.

Usage

For installation of desired packages (before first use), run . kompanion.ps1 -RebuildOnStart <Features>.

The simplest way to isolate the environment for a single package is to proceed as per the following instructions; please notice that doing so you can have only a single VSCode instance running, as launching other instances affect the environment variables for all (breaking isolation).

1. Add this directory to your PATH environment variable.
2. In a PowerShell terminal, navigate to your working directory.
3. Source the environment with . kompanion.ps1 <Features>.
4. Call Start-Kompanion and keep the terminal open.

In the source phase, <Features> may take the following values:

Flag	Description
-RebuildOnStart	Force rebuild/installation of packages
-EnableFull	Enable all supported features
-EnableLang	Enable all programming languages
-EnableSimu	Enable all simulation tools
-EnablePython	Enable Python
-EnableJulia	Enable Julia
-EnableRacket	Enable Racket
-EnableLaTeX	Enable LaTeX (extended) toolkit
-EnableElmer	Enable Elmer Multiphysics
-EnableGmsh	Enable Gmsh

To-do

The following aim at flattening the project of at least one level:

• Refactor documentation for new version.
• Update Git submodules at .gitmodules and under .git directory at relevant locations.
• Split the Tested packages of docs/preamble.md into sections for better management.