Hi Chris,

On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 4:15 PM, Christopher Patridge <patridge@buffalo.edu> wrote:
Hello everyone,

I tried to install demeter on my mac (running high Sierra) and it appeared everything went well.  However when I run either Athena or Artemis I get an error shown below about Demeter::Templates: showing a error and I am not sure how I can correct this error.  Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advanced,

I can confirm this.  I just did a fresh install of Macports on 10.13.3 (high sierra).  The MacPorts install was not super easy, but once it got to the demeter install, that part went fine.  

I see the same problem with athena from demeter 0.9.25. I think the warnings about "Demeter::Templates::F" and so forth are meant to be warnings only -- I think they may not be related to the crash of athena.   For me, hephaestus gives the same sort of warnings, but runs fine.

I can install and run Demeter 0.9.26 (including using Larch as a backend) using Macports, though there are definitely some Mac-specific weirdness. Anyway, I do not believe that "install from source" is a feasible approach for demeter on OSX. I do not know enough about Macports to update the existing package.  I don't know that using some other system would be an improvement.

We keep seeing problems with demeter on OSX.   I'm not sure what the right answer is.  Anyone have any suggestions?

--Matt