[yt-dev] on adding new frontends

[Chris Malone]

Sounds good - I'll add it to my list.  Also, the _skeleton frontend is out
of date.  I'll fix that too.

Chris

On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 9:33 AM, Nathan Goldbaum <nathan12343 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Chris,
>
> While you're at it, it might be worthwhile to update this page, which is
> still somewhat out of date:
>
> http://yt-project.org/doc/developing/creating_frontend.html
>
> Nathan
>
>
> On Tuesday, October 7, 2014, Chris Malone <chris.m.malone at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the feedback.
>>
>> I wouldn't mind helping keeping it maintained, but I couldn't be the sole
>> maintainer, as I don't have the actual Dumses code and can't keep up with
>> changes.  My colleague says there is probably a person or two at CEA who
>> would be willing to become co-keeper of the frontend.  And I would get them
>> to put a dataset up for testing.
>>
>> My current plan of attack was to finish making modifications in my repo,
>> then let the Dumses users/devs know how to get it and test it out.  If
>> they're happy with it, and agree to (co-)maintain the frontend code, then
>> we'll move forward with putting it into the main yt repo.
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 8:45 AM, Britton Smith <brittonsmith at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I am in favor of including it.  If it is kept aside in a separate
>>> branch, it may be difficult to maintain as yt infrastructure changes.  I
>>> strongly recommend seeing if you can get a hold of a sample dataset that
>>> could be posted to yt-project.org/data and used for answer testing.
>>>
>>> Britton
>>>
>>> On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 10:41 AM, John ZuHone <jzuhone at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> +1 to Mike
>>>>
>>>> John ZuHone
>>>> Kavli Center for Astrophysics and Space Research
>>>> Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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>>>> Cambridge, MA 02139
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>>>>
>>>> On Oct 7, 2014, at 10:40 AM, Michael Zingale <
>>>> michael.zingale at stonybrook.edu> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> My vote would be that if someone is willing to maintain a new frontend,
>>>> then it should go in, so it keeps sync with the rest of yt.
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 10:37 AM, Chris Malone <chris.m.malone at gmail.com
>>>> > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> All,
>>>>>
>>>>> Are there any requirements/restrictions on what types of codes should
>>>>> be added as new frontends in the yt repository?
>>>>>
>>>>> I ask because yesterday I wrote a frontend for a collaborator working
>>>>> with the Dumses code.  As best I can tell, Dumses is a stripped-down
>>>>> version of Ramses, but without the AMR and with a completely different file
>>>>> format.  Also, as best I can tell, only a handful of people (mainly at the
>>>>> CEA?) work on this code, and it is nigh-impossible to find any information
>>>>> on the interwebs about it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Should I fold this new frontend into the main yt repo, or just give
>>>>> the users of Dumses the frontend code and let them do what they will?  The
>>>>> former might pull in a couple more users/developers, but the latter would
>>>>> keep us from cluttering yt/frontends.
>>>>>
>>>>> Chris
>>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>
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