[yt-users] yt on 'astronomy computing today'

[Matthew Turk]

Hi Peter,

On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 8:31 PM, Peter Teuben <teuben at astro.umd.edu> wrote:
> On 09/10/2012 11:11 AM, Matthew Turk wrote:
>>
>>
>> the  "yt serve" command comes back and tells me i need to install
>> missing Reason support files.  It gives an example what to do (has a
>> minor typo)
>>
>>             cd /home/teuben/yt/yt-x86_64:/src
>>                                                           ^^^^   (no colon)
>>             wget http://yt-project.org/dependencies/reason-js-20120623.zip
>> Hmm, this is a bit odd.  Digging into the code, this message is issued
>> by lines 95-96 in yt/gui/reason/utils.py, which look like:
>>
>> reasonjs_path = os.path.join(os.environ["YT_DEST"], "src", fn)
>> if not os.path.isfile(reasonjs_path):
>>     ...
>>
>> I'm wondering if possibly YT_DEST, in your environment, might have a
>> trailing semicolon?  If so, can you run again without the trailing
>> semicolon?
>
> bingo!    there was a trailing colon, not semi-colon, but it threw off
> the setup. The bash variant
> doesn't have this problem, I should have perhaps mentioned,but I used
> tcsh in my example.

Ah!  Okay, thanks.  I've pushed a fix to both stable and development
for the activate.csh.  Thanks for catching this!

Let us know if there's anything else,

-Matt

>
> peter
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