From 1fca2b7bda58eed0b144f2f88c734fa16ddc6f4a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bas des Tombe <bdestombe@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2024 15:29:59 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Remove explicit download_mfbinaries in favor of auto download

---
 .github/workflows/ci.yml                  |  5 -----
 README.md                                 |  9 +--------
 docs/examples/00_model_from_scratch.ipynb | 19 -------------------
 docs/getting_started.rst                  |  6 ++----
 4 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 60c27dae..9c2b3fdf 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.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}}
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 1bfec90f..0286b4d9 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/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.
diff --git a/docs/examples/00_model_from_scratch.ipynb b/docs/examples/00_model_from_scratch.ipynb
index 40579e4f..3163a444 100644
--- a/docs/examples/00_model_from_scratch.ipynb
+++ b/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",
diff --git a/docs/getting_started.rst b/docs/getting_started.rst
index 4d995c5c..378af872 100644
--- a/docs/getting_started.rst
+++ b/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::