[yt-dev] Fwd: [yt_analysis/yt] Adding IPython notebook dependencies (on-by-default) to the install script. (pull request #137)

[j s oishi]

+1

On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Matthew Turk <matthewturk at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I thought this pull request might be of interest to the list, and we
> could discuss it here, rather than in the PR itself.
>
> The IPython notebook is awesome.  I love Reason, and I'm super proud
> of the work we have done on it, but the clunkiest part of Reason is
> the cell-evaluation (and, it's also the part of it that we spent the
> least time on.)  I think it would be worthwhile to discuss and
> consider moving forward with de-emphasizing our own notebook solution,
> embed IPython inside Reason, and then re-focus on providing awesome
> widgets.  I am still reading through the API for the IPython
> notebook's engine interface, but I believe this could be accomplished
> by:
>
> 1) Spinning up an SSL-enabled, passworded IPython engine when reason is started
> 2) Construct actual RPC interfaces for the existing (and new) widgets,
> with payload delivery systems
> 3) Embed the IPython notebook as another widget
>
> Anyway, if you want to test it out, pull the new install script, run
> it, and then start the notebook with:
>
> ipython notebook
>
> There are some pretty awesome things in there.  Fernando Perez and I
> discussed this on a G+ post of his (
> https://plus.google.com/105051551851350439748/posts/gd9fDgpV8iY ) and
> I'd particularly draw your attention to the blog post he cited by
> Titus Brown ( http://ivory.idyll.org/blog/apr-12/replication-i.html ;
> I believe his office is just down the hall from where we held the Enzo
> workshop last Spring!) and the possibilities therein.
>
> Even if down the road we don't find a way to marry Reason widgets with
> the IPython notebook in a seamless way, I'm still issuing this PR
> because I would like to make it easier to get up and running with the
> notebook.  Note that they have a detailed discussion of the security
> implications ( http://ipython.org/ipython-doc/rel-0.12/interactive/htmlnotebook.html#security
> ), which become very important on shared user systems, which I think
> make up the majority of yt installations.
>
> Thoughts on this?
>
> -Matt
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Matthew Turk <pullrequests-noreply at bitbucket.org>
> Date: Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 3:31 PM
> Subject: [yt_analysis/yt] Adding IPython notebook dependencies
> (on-by-default) to the install script. (pull request #137)
> To: yt at enzotools.org
>
>
> A new pull request has been opened by Matthew Turk.
>
> MatthewTurk/yt has changes to be pulled into yt_analysis/yt.
>
> https://bitbucket.org/yt_analysis/yt/pull-request/137/adding-ipython-notebook-dependencies-on-by
>
> Title: Adding IPython notebook dependencies (on-by-default) to the
> install script.
>
> The IPython notebook requires 0MQ, Tornado and pyzmq.  This change
> adds those dependencies.
>
> Changes to be pulled:
>
>
>
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