[yt-dev] on adding new frontends

[Nathan Goldbaum]

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still somewhat out of date: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
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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
>>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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
>>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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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