[skip ci] docs: Clarify that users are not required to install EPRI's binaries to use this.

PMeira · PMeira · commit 01d0c41df78c · 2024-02-25T18:44:04.000-03:00
diff --git a/docs/notebooks/Installation.ipynb b/docs/notebooks/Installation.ipynb
@@ -22,6 +22,13 @@
     "**Recommended**: Use [Miniconda](https://conda.io/miniconda.html) or [Anaconda](https://www.anaconda.com/download/) to install Python"
    ]
   },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "Although we recommend new OpenDSS users to install and try the official/EPRI's distribution of OpenDSS, users **are not required to install EPRI's distribution of OpenDSS to use OpenDSSDirect.py**. The engine used in OpenDSSDirect.py and other projects under DSS-Extensions is AltDSS/DSS C-API, which is a version maintained and extended by the community. A future version might also include support for the official OpenDSS binaries (currently Windows only), which of course does not include any of the community extensions."
+   ]
+  },
   {
    "cell_type": "markdown",
    "metadata": {},
@@ -183,7 +190,7 @@
    "name": "python",
    "nbconvert_exporter": "python",
    "pygments_lexer": "ipython3",
-   "version": "3.6.1"
+   "version": "3.11.6"
   }
  },
  "nbformat": 4,
