[yt-dev] Future of the install script

[Nathan Goldbaum]

I've changed the subject line to avoid derailing the other thread.

On Friday, January 15, 2016, Matthew Turk <matthewturk at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Nathan,
>
> (I'll reply to Andrew a bit later once I've thought it over.)
>
> I'd strongly campaign against unifying the two scripts right now, if
> ever.  I don't like that we have two either, but I don't think we
> should make this part of the 3.3 release cycle, just because it's yet
> another major potential disruption.  It would be nice to work out a
> way to migrate nicely to conda, but maybe we should hold off until we
> have infrastructure in place for our own conda package builds?




What do we do about people who want to install on the latest versions of
OSX? What about clusters that have older SSL installs?  Right now our
solution is to tell people about get_yt.sh when they complain on the
mailing list, but I wouldn't be surprised if we're missing people who give
up after getting errors.

Why do we need our own package builds?

What about simply linking to get_yt.sh on the website?


>
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 5:20 PM, Nathan Goldbaum <nathan12343 at gmail.com
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 1:45 PM, Andrew Myers <atmyers2 at gmail.com
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >>
> >> Dear yt developers,
> >>
> >> yt version 3.2 was released back in July of 2014. Since then, there
> have a
> >> been a number of cool new features added (good work, everyone!), and it
> >> would be nice to get them into a stable release. However, there are a
> few
> >> major things that need to be done before that can happen. First, there
> are a
> >> number of outstanding issues related to the volume render refactor that
> need
> >> to be addressed before 3.3 can be released. Additionally, version 3.3
> will
> >> include unstructured mesh visualization support, and there is some more
> work
> >> Matt and I need to do before that is ready. Other than those things,
> though,
> >> is there anything I'm leaving out that people want to get in before
> version
> >> 3.3 is released?
> >
> >
> > I would like to see the install script situation resolved. In
> particular, I
> > think get_yt.sh and install_script.sh should be merged, and users
> > should be able to choose at install time whether or not they want a
> > source-based install or a miniconda-based install.
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks for your time,
> >> Andrew
> >>
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