[yt-users] cutting plane not working or changed

[Nathan Goldbaum]

Yes, using a conda environment should work. It's up to you how you want to
manage your install.

The nightly conda builds might be useful for this purpose:

http://yt-project.org/doc/installing.html#installing-yt-using-anaconda

On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 7:55 AM Slavin, Jonathan <jslavin at cfa.harvard.edu>
wrote:

> Hi Nathan,
>
> As you can probably tell, our e-mails of yesterday crossed.
>
> I am willing to use the development branch of yt, though I'd prefer if
> I could use it alongside the stable branch instead of replacing it.  I
> currently use anaconda.  I suppose the way to go about that would be
> to create a new environment.  Maybe this is the motivation I need to
> finally move to python 3.x.  Any suggestions?
>
> Jon
>
> On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 5:06 PM,  <yt-users-request at lists.spacepope.org>
> wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 13:42:36 -0500
> > From: Nathan Goldbaum <nathan12343 at gmail.com>
> > To: Discussion of the yt analysis package
> >         <yt-users at lists.spacepope.org>
> > Subject: Re: [yt-users] cutting plane not working or changed
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> > Ah, apologies for not checking how yt behaves on a stable release. I'm
> able
> > to reproduce the behavior you're seeing on yt 3.3.5. It looks like this
> > behavior doesn't manifest itself on the yt branch, so it looks like some
> > changes we've made have "fixed" this since we branched off for yt 3.4
> last
> > summer. I suspect this has something to do with the pixelizers being
> > rewritten to use compositing but I'd need to check in detail with hg
> bisect
> > to be sure.
> >
> > Can you try testing out the development version of yt? You should be able
> > to build yt from source by uninstalling your current version of yt,
> cloning
> > the repository, checking out the "yt" branch, and running "python
> setup.py
> > develop". See this page for more details:
> >
> >
> http://yt-project.org/docs/dev/installing.html#installing-yt-using-pip-or-from-source
> >
> > Is the new behavior (wtihout the NaNs) what you expect?
> >
> > I might try to backport this to the stable branch, but given that a lot
> of
> > code has changed in the pixelizers it might be difficult to backport just
> > this fix. Would you be ok with running on the development branch for now?
> > I'd ideally like to get yt 3.4.0 out the door by this summer.
>
>
>
>
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