[yt-dev] Reason, PlotCollection and yt-3.0

[Nathan Goldbaum]

On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 7:33 PM, Matthew Turk <matthewturk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Feb 9, 2014 10:24 PM, "Nathan Goldbaum" <nathan12343 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I want to raise the possibility of removing the PlotCollection and
>> Reason code from yt before the 3.0 release.
>>
>> I haven't checked recently but given the changes in yt since they were
>> last updated, both features likely do not work correctly right now.
>> Given the move to notebooks* and PlotWindow-style plotting going
>> forward, I think now is the time to rip off the bandage and remove the
>> code.
>>
>> It's likely some of the gui code can be repurposed for a widget, but
>> that doesn't mean reason as it is right now needs to be bundled with
>> the release or exist in the dev repo.
>>
>
> I'm -1 on removing reason wholesale, but -0.5 on removing the command and
> some mentions of it. Having recently spent some time trying to work with
> IPython internals, I think there is some utility in an extremely simple
> system (simpler than reason is) that is application focused rather than
> notebook widget focused, even if not globally applicable. Plus the Reason
> system is pretty convenient for those situations where fork() is not
> implemented.

I guess that means you'll be using the reason code and are planning on
updating it eventually.  In that case I think it makes sense to keep
it in the repo.  Suggestion withdrawn :)

>
> I am -0 on removing plot collection, but could be convinced if enough people
> were in favor.
>
>> -Nathan
>>
>> *As a side note, you should all check out the IPython javascript demos
>> in the release candidate for IPython 2.0.  Since the widgets
>> communicate with a live kernel, you unfortunately can't demo it with a
>> static nbviewer page. Look in the examples folder in the root of the
>> IPython repository.
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