updated installation instructions + renamed optional dependencies set

README.md

@@ -4,22 +4,7 @@
 
 ## Installation
 
-`libra-toolbox` relies on Python. You can install it from the official website: [python.org](https://www.python.org/downloads/).
-
-Install OpenMC:
-
-If you want to run OpenMC functions, [install OpenMC](https://docs.openmc.org/en/stable/quickinstall.html) with conda:
-
-```
-conda install -c conda-forge openmc>=0.14.0
-```
-
-
-To install `libra-toolbox`, use pip:
-
-```bash
-pip install git+https://github.com/LIBRA-project/libra-toolbox
-```
+You can find the [installation instructions](https://libra-toolbox.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation.html#installation) in the documentation.
 
 ## Documentation
 The documentation for `libra-toolbox` is built using Sphinx and is [available online](https://libra-toolbox.readthedocs.io/en/latest/). To build the documentation locally, you can use the provided Makefile or make.bat script.

docs/installation.rst

@@ -21,6 +21,20 @@ To install a specific version of the code:
 
 Here, ``v0.1`` is the version number. You can replace it with the version you want to install.
 
+To install the code in editable mode (i.e. the code is installed in the current directory and any changes to the code are immediately available to the user):
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+   git clone https://github.com/LIBRA-project/libra-toolbox
+   cd libra-toolbox
+   pip install -e .
+
+To install the code alongside with the optional dependencies for the neutronics module, first [install OpenMC](https://docs.openmc.org/en/stable/quickinstall.html) with conda:
+
+```
+conda install -c conda-forge openmc>=0.14.0
+```
+
 To uninstall the package:
 
 .. code-block:: bash

pyproject.toml

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ dynamic = ["version"]
 dependencies = ["numpy", "pint", "scipy", "matplotlib", "sympy", "pandas"]
 
 [project.optional-dependencies]
-extra-feature = ["openmc>=0.14.0", "h5py"]
+neutronics = ["openmc>=0.14.0", "h5py"]
 tests = ["pytest>=5.4.3", "pytest-cov", "nbconvert", "ipykernel"]
 
 [tool.setuptools_scm]