[yt-dev] on adding new frontends

Cameron Hummels chummels at gmail.com
Tue Oct 7 07:42:41 PDT 2014


+1 to Mike, but it also means someone has to agree to be the Dumses
frontend keeper.  Are you willing to be that person, Chris?

On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 7:41 AM, John ZuHone <jzuhone at gmail.com> wrote:

> +1 to Mike
>
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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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