Installation

Prerequisites

Hermes-DM relies on PyVISA to communicate with physical hardware. You must have a working VISA backend installed on your system.

• Windows/macOS: We recommend installing NI-VISA, but pyvisa-py will work as well.

• Linux: You can use the pure-Python backend by installing pyvisa-py alongside this package.

Standard Installation (End Users)

(Note: Hermes-DM is currently in pre-release. Once published to PyPI, you can install it via pip.)

To install the latest stable release:

python -m pip install hermes-dm

To install with the pure-Python VISA backend (recommended for Linux):

python -m pip install hermes-dm[pyvisa-py]

Developer Installation

If you want to contribute to the project or run the test suite, install the package from source in “editable” mode.

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/cbeiraod/hermes-dm.git
   cd hermes-dm
   

2. Create and activate a virtual environment:

   python -m venv .venv
   source .venv/bin/activate  # On Windows use: .venv\Scripts\activate
   

3. Install with development and documentation tools:

   pip install -e ".[dev,docs]"
   

4. Install the pre-commit Git hooks:

   pre-commit install