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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>I'd be in favor of a "conda or pip" solution as opposed to a "conda"-only solution for us. With the binary wheels we can support OSX and Windows without much issue, and for Linux building from source works most of the time.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">That said, before we standardized this it would be good if we had it so that pip downloaded all of the dependencies when you did "pip install yt". I realize that this is not as simple as it sounds, and that we've looked at this already, but we should try again I think.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">In my opinion the install script is getting to be a lot of trouble, which is why we should at least start the process of moving away from it (to a certain extent we have).</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br><span style="font-size: 13pt; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">John ZuHone</span><div><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br>60 Garden St., MS-67</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Cambridge, MA 02138<br>(w) 617-496-1816</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">(m) <a href="tel:781-708-5004" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="telephone" x-apple-data-detectors-result="1/2">781-708-5004</a><br><a href="mailto:jzuhone@cfa.harvard.edu">jzuhone@cfa.harvard.edu</a></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="mailto:jzuhone@gmail.com" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="2">jzuhone@gmail.com</a><br><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.jzuhone.com_&d=BQMFaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=hgcBC3x6dKFoTrmFmMYYbKNfiHZlGLKliIidd1LwmHI&m=lADT7Ire7xgm6SOCIVrWRPHAAJAPaKRPP2i-qldx6OQ&s=DSqGqFtDNgajzm5_quAF0XUIMpmMn3eBP46Zaugs6Ps&e=" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="3">http://www.jzuhone.com</a></span><br style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"></div></div></div><div><br>On Jan 15, 2016, at 8:41 AM, Matthew Turk <<a href="mailto:matthewturk@gmail.com">matthewturk@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>Hi Nathan,</span><br><span></span><br><span>(I'll reply to Andrew a bit later once I've thought it over.)</span><br><span></span><br><span>I'd strongly campaign against unifying the two scripts right now, if</span><br><span>ever. I don't like that we have two either, but I don't think we</span><br><span>should make this part of the 3.3 release cycle, just because it's yet</span><br><span>another major potential disruption. It would be nice to work out a</span><br><span>way to migrate nicely to conda, but maybe we should hold off until we</span><br><span>have infrastructure in place for our own conda package builds?</span><br><span></span><br><span>On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 5:20 PM, Nathan Goldbaum <<a href="mailto:nathan12343@gmail.com">nathan12343@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 1:45 PM, Andrew Myers <<a href="mailto:atmyers2@gmail.com">atmyers2@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Dear yt developers,</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>yt version 3.2 was released back in July of 2014. Since then, there have a</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>been a number of cool new features added (good work, everyone!), and it</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>would be nice to get them into a stable release. However, there are a few</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>major things that need to be done before that can happen. First, there are a</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>number of outstanding issues related to the volume render refactor that need</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>to be addressed before 3.3 can be released. Additionally, version 3.3 will</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>include unstructured mesh visualization support, and there is some more work</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Matt and I need to do before that is ready. Other than those things, though,</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>is there anything I'm leaving out that people want to get in before version</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>3.3 is released?</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>I would like to see the install script situation resolved. In particular, I</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>think get_yt.sh and install_script.sh should be merged, and users</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>should be able to choose at install time whether or not they want a</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>source-based install or a miniconda-based install.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Thanks for your time,</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Andrew</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>_______________________________________________</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>yt-dev mailing list</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="mailto:yt-dev@lists.spacepope.org">yt-dev@lists.spacepope.org</a></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__lists.spacepope.org_listinfo.cgi_yt-2Ddev-2Dspacepope.org&d=BQMFaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=hgcBC3x6dKFoTrmFmMYYbKNfiHZlGLKliIidd1LwmHI&m=lADT7Ire7xgm6SOCIVrWRPHAAJAPaKRPP2i-qldx6OQ&s=lpRT-A0yEe3tzdcyrKQRJGYT0r9YIlx0ylrm1_4ct9Q&e=">http://lists.spacepope.org/listinfo.cgi/yt-dev-spacepope.org</a></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>_______________________________________________</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>yt-dev mailing list</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="mailto:yt-dev@lists.spacepope.org">yt-dev@lists.spacepope.org</a></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__lists.spacepope.org_listinfo.cgi_yt-2Ddev-2Dspacepope.org&d=BQMFaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=hgcBC3x6dKFoTrmFmMYYbKNfiHZlGLKliIidd1LwmHI&m=lADT7Ire7xgm6SOCIVrWRPHAAJAPaKRPP2i-qldx6OQ&s=lpRT-A0yEe3tzdcyrKQRJGYT0r9YIlx0ylrm1_4ct9Q&e=">http://lists.spacepope.org/listinfo.cgi/yt-dev-spacepope.org</a></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>yt-dev mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:yt-dev@lists.spacepope.org">yt-dev@lists.spacepope.org</a></span><br><span><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__lists.spacepope.org_listinfo.cgi_yt-2Ddev-2Dspacepope.org&d=BQMFaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=hgcBC3x6dKFoTrmFmMYYbKNfiHZlGLKliIidd1LwmHI&m=lADT7Ire7xgm6SOCIVrWRPHAAJAPaKRPP2i-qldx6OQ&s=lpRT-A0yEe3tzdcyrKQRJGYT0r9YIlx0ylrm1_4ct9Q&e=">http://lists.spacepope.org/listinfo.cgi/yt-dev-spacepope.org</a></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>