[yt-dev] New software installer from STScI

Marcel Haas mhaas at physics.rutgers.edu
Thu Jun 13 19:05:49 PDT 2013


Good point! And in fact, this group is usually very open to 
collaboration with 'third parties', especially if that could help a 
significant fraction of the astronomical community. They are very 
professional, and their products widely used. I'd say: give it a try!


Cheers, Marcel




On 06/13/2013 09:50 PM, Nathan Goldbaum wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'd like to bring everyone's attention to ureka
> (http://ssb.stsci.edu/ureka/) a new binary distribution centered around
> python, IRAF, and commonly used astronomical image viewing and
> visualization software (e.g. DS9).  They include a large number of
> python modules, in fact most of yt's source dependencies:
>
> http://ssb.stsci.edu/ureka/1.0beta5/docs/python_modules.html#sec-python-modules
>
> All this software is available for OS X and linux and because it's a
> binary download it should run significantly quicker than yt's install
> script.
>
> I'll admit that I haven't tried installing it yet but it might be
> worthwhile to experiment a bit.  If it's a good fit, we could add
> instructions to the website or the docs or even try to get them to
> include yt out of the box.
>
> -Nathan
>
>
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