.. _CODAS-installation:

CODAS installation
==================

.. toctree::
   :hidden:

   hg_install
   zip_install


CODAS software is designed to run on many platforms.  Executables
are written in C, and scripts run in Python and Matlab.  We are slowly
transitioning parts of the Matlab code to Python.

Installing CODAS used to be a matter of installing Python and Matlab,
and extracting a bunch of zip files (with the CODAS programs,
documentation, and demos).  That mechanism will work for some time to
come, but due to the number of different operating systems and Python
versions, we have a new scheme that is more flexible.  Both are documented
below.

* This is what we recommend, and where we are going:

  Installing `CODAS using Mercurial <hg_install.html>`_




*  This code base is more limited but still functional for many datasets:

   Installing the `Stable, Basic Python+Matlab <zip_install.html>`_
   CODAS Software


Please let us know (hummon@hawaii.edu) if you are installing CODAS
programs and want to be informed if there are updates or bug fixes.