[yt-users] cutting plane not working or changed

[Slavin, Jonathan]

Hi Nathan,

Creating a new conda environment and then installing the nightly build
version of yt worked quite nicely -- and now the slice plot works!
Thanks for your help.  I hope those changes get incorporated into a
stable build relatively soon.

Best wishes,
Jon

On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 9:15 AM, Nathan Goldbaum <nathan12343 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>> > Message-ID:
>> >
>> > <CAJXewOkmpm6U9XpeDu+Xgjf4xTLBig_4Ery1tPetKi4ThPkzYA at mail.gmail.com>
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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.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> ________________________________________________________
>> Jonathan D. Slavin                 Harvard-Smithsonian CfA
>> jslavin at cfa.harvard.edu       60 Garden Street, MS 83
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Jonathan D. Slavin                 Harvard-Smithsonian CfA
jslavin at cfa.harvard.edu       60 Garden Street, MS 83
phone: (617) 496-7981       Cambridge, MA 02138-1516
cell: (781) 363-0035             USA
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