IPython upgrade

Hello All,

I've finished my work to make BASIN compatible with the latest version of
IPython. This required some non-backward compatible changes, so the current
version of IPython installed on Frinkiac and other machines won't function
with my latest changes.

I did commit my changes to subversion, so unless you are prepared to work
with the newest version of IPython, you should not update your basin_remote
or basin_client.

In addition, there seems to be an issue with installing the newest version
of IPython on Python versions older than 2.5. So, for the time being, I will
make the newest IPython tools available on Frinkiac using Python 2.5.

Please note that 2.5 is not the default version of Python on Frinkiac. You
will most likely need to manually change the reference to python for your
account, by doing something like

alias python=/usr/bin/python2.5

in your .profile.

Since there will be a bit of a transitional period, I've installed the new
IPython tools globally, but in a way such that they won't overwrite the
existing IPython installation.

If you are interested in trying the newest IPython tools I've installed them
in /opt/IPython on Frinkiac. To use this, you will probably need to modify
the PATH and PYTHONPATH in your shell as follows:

PATH=/opt/IPython/bin:$PATH
PYTHONPATH=/opt/IPython/lib/python2.5/site-packages:$PYTHONPATH

I've updated the various Wikis to reference the changes that I've made.

The only thing I haven't done is change the Wiki install instructions for
IPython. They haven't made a tar release of their source yet, so right now
the only way to access it is to copy their repository using bazaar. For the
convenience of our users, I will try to create a tar and place a link to it
on our Wiki.

Please let me know if you have any issues or concerns!

~Doug
Received on Thu Jun 12 17:01:34 2008