Re: IPython upgrade

Hello All,

I just finished updating the Wiki with new installation instructions. For
now, I've created a tar file of IPython that is hosted locally, since the
IPython group has not produced their own yet.

In the future, we can switch to using their distributions when they become
available.

http://www.physics.drexel.edu/basin_trac/remote_trac/wiki/RemoteInstallationSrc

~Doug

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 5:05 PM, Douglas Jones <dfj23@drexel.edu> wrote:

> 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 Fri Jun 13 12:43:46 2008