[yt-dev] Forthon issues

[Stephen Skory]

Hi all,

Some problems Sam was having with the fortan kdtree has alerted me to
some necessary changes due to changes in Forthon. Two of them are
simple. One is to remove a --with-numpy flag in the Makefile. The
second is that the most recent version of Forthon (0.8.9) builds the
fKDpy.so object in it's own build/lib.arch.../ directory, not in the
same directory as the Makefile. This is easily fixed by a change to
the setup.py file in yt/utilities. I will issue a PR for this
depending on the discussion of the following issue.

The not-simple change is that the newest Forthon setup.py is
hard-coded to install the Forthon package for the system Python,
regardless of which actual Python stack you're using, which is not
convenient for our custom-curated yt stack. The fix is to simply
remove the hard-coding. But I want to ask y'all what the best course
forward from here is: A) ask the author to change it, B) make the
change in the Forthon linked to in the install_script, or C) stick to
the old version for now?

Thanks!

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