[yt-dev] Updating documentation notebook and notebook dependency to IPython 4

[Cameron Hummels]

With this new format, what is the way to edit notebooks (e.g. in the
docs)?  We won't be able to edit the .ipynb file directly with a text
editor?  How now?

On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 1:46 PM, Nathan Goldbaum <nathan12343 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Would anyone object to me updating the install script dependency and
> notebook dependency to IPython 4.x?
>
> Right now it's quite annoying to edit the notebooks in the documentation,
> since you basically need to either edit them "by hand" (e.g. by directly
> editing the .ipynb file in a text editor) or update to IPython 2.x. It also
> causes a possibly scary to a new user pop-up box when opening the notebooks
> warning that notebook has been automatically converted to the new format.
>
> The down side of doing this update is that people on older versions of
> IPython will no longer be able to read the notebooks. In addition, we will
> need to update our build automation and sphinx setup to use the newer
> version of IPython.
>
> My ultimate goal is to make sure our docs are fully compatible with both
> python2 and python3, but I figure if I'm going over the full docs build I
> might as well update the IPython dependency as well.
>
> -Nathan
>
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Cameron Hummels
NSF Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Astronomy
California Institute of Technology
http://chummels.org
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