@@ -49,22 +49,15 @@ After installing
4949Building Basilisk ``wheel `` File
5050--------------------------------
5151
52- On its own, there is no significant benefit to installing Basilisk in this way. However, supporting standard Python
53- packaging tools means that Basilisk can now be built into a pre-compiled `"wheel" (.whl) file
54- <https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/guides/distributing-packages-using-setuptools/#wheels> `_ that can be shared
55- and installed on other compatible machines.
56-
57- Using ``pip ``, the command below will generate a ``Basilisk-*.whl `` file in the current directory::
52+ Using ``pip ``, the command below will generate a ``bsk-*.whl `` file in the current directory::
5853
5954 pip wheel --no-deps -v .
6055
6156The resulting wheel file can then be installed using ``pip ``::
6257
63- pip install Basilisk -*.whl
58+ pip install bsk -*.whl
6459
65- The main benefit of this approach will come in the future, when a set of pre-compiled wheels will be made available,
66- allowing most users to easily ``pip install Basilisk `` without compilation, in the same way that packages like
67- ``numpy ``, ``scipy ``, and ``pandas `` are available.
60+ This allows the user to create a custom Basilisk wheel to distribute within their organization.
6861
6962To keep the wheel size smaller, the BSK data files are not installed by default. If the user
7063wants to use script that assumes they are included into the Basilisk python package, then go to the
@@ -83,7 +76,7 @@ directly downloads the missing BSK data files and put them into a local pooch ca
8376 If the computer does not have local internet access and the ``pip install `` is done via
8477 a local wheel, then these missing Spice ``*.bsp `` data files can be manually added to::
8578
86- .../. venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/Basilisk/supportData/EphemerisData
79+ .venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/Basilisk/supportData/EphemerisData
8780
8881If installing Basilisk via a wheel the user does not have direct access to the full Basilisk source
8982folder which contains the ``examples `` folder. The Terminal command ``bskExamples ``
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