Remove explicit download_mfbinaries in favor of auto download

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -39,11 +39,6 @@ jobs:
           # exit-zero treats all errors as warnings.
           flake8 . --count --exit-zero --max-complexity=10 --max-line-length=80 --statistics
 
-      - name: Download executables needed for tests
-        shell: bash -l {0}
-        run: |
-          python -c "import nlmod; nlmod.util.download_mfbinaries()"
-
       - name: Run tests only
         env:
             NHI_GWO_USERNAME: ${{ secrets.NHI_GWO_USERNAME}}

README.md

@@ -66,11 +66,4 @@ notoriously hard to install on certain platforms. Please see the
 
 ## Getting started
 
-If you are using `nlmod` for the first time you need to download the MODFLOW
-executables. You can easily download these executables by running this Python code:
-
-    import nlmod
-	nlmod.download_mfbinaries()
-
-After you've downloaded the executables you can run the Jupyter Notebooks in the
-examples folder. These notebooks illustrate how to use the `nlmod` package.
+Start with the Jupyter Notebooks in the examples folder. These notebooks illustrate how to use the `nlmod` package.

docs/examples/00_model_from_scratch.ipynb

@@ -35,25 +35,6 @@
     "nlmod.util.get_color_logger(\"INFO\");"
    ]
   },
-  {
-   "attachments": {},
-   "cell_type": "markdown",
-   "metadata": {},
-   "source": [
-    "## Download MODFLOW-binaries\n",
-    "To run MODFLOW, we need to download the MODFLOW-excecutables. We do this with the following code:"
-   ]
-  },
-  {
-   "cell_type": "code",
-   "execution_count": null,
-   "metadata": {},
-   "outputs": [],
-   "source": [
-    "if not nlmod.util.check_presence_mfbinaries():\n",
-    "    nlmod.download_mfbinaries()"
-   ]
-  },
   {
    "attachments": {},
    "cell_type": "markdown",

docs/getting_started.rst

@@ -72,10 +72,8 @@ MODFLOW 6 model given a model dataset::
 
     # ... add some boundary condition packages (GHB, RIV, DRN, ...)
 
-Running the model requires the modflow binaries provided by the USGS. Those can
-be downloaded with::
-
-    nlmod.download_mfbinaries()
+The MODFLOW 6 executable is automatically downloaded and installed to your system
+when building the first model.
 
 Writing and running the model can then be done using::