add Cantera

[mefuller]

Add Cantera to index (chemical kinetics, thermodynamics, and transport tool suite)

[awvwgk]

This project currently does not support fpm. Therefore closing this PR.

[mefuller]

Hi @awvwgk , can you point to documentation or instructions as to what the project would require for inclusion into FPM?
I would be happy to look into developing the necessary patch.
Thanks

[awvwgk]

I can see that Cantera provides Fortran bindings, however those are currently not directly usable from fpm without declaring Cantera as external/system dependency:

[build]
link = ["cantera"]
external-modules = ["cantera"]

The registry lists packages which can be used as dependencies in fpm, e.g.:

[dependencies]
cantera.git = "https://github.com/Cantera/cantera"

Which is currently not possible, because fpm does not support foreign build system like scons (yet).

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I see two possible ways forward to make Cantera available for fpm:

1. provide a package with declares Cantera as external/system dependency, preferable build the Fortran bindings as part of the fpm package to avoid incompatibilities with different Fortran compilers
2. extend fpm to provide support for scons and build Cantera with fpm