Opened 10 years ago
Last modified 6 years ago
#12719 closed enhancement
Upgrade to IPython 0.12 — at Version 14
Reported by: | kini | Owned by: | tbd |
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Priority: | critical | Milestone: | sage-5.7 |
Component: | packages: standard | Keywords: | sd40.5 |
Cc: | iandrus, vbraun, jason, AlexanderDreyer, robertwb | Merged in: | |
Authors: | Mike Hansen | Reviewers: | |
Report Upstream: | N/A | Work issues: | |
Branch: | Commit: | ||
Dependencies: | Stopgaps: |
Description (last modified by )
We need to upgrade IPython to the shiny new thing. Well, not really - the shiny new thing was 0.11, and 0.12 is now stable. It's been mostly rewritten and is now a lot more modular, as I understand it. Definitely worth using in Sage.
apply:
Install IPython 0.12 (spkg coming soon...)
Change History (14)
comment:1 Changed 10 years ago by
comment:2 Changed 10 years ago by
Would be nice but we need some porting, here is what typically happen if you try to use ipython-0.12 with sage (we had several reports in sage-on-gentoo before I pinned down the version used by sage):
$ sage ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | Sage Version 4.7.2, Release Date: 2011-10-29 | | Type notebook() for the GUI, and license() for information. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/sage-ipython", line 19, in <module> from IPython.CrashHandler import CrashHandler ImportError: No module named CrashHandler
comment:3 Changed 10 years ago by
Yes, obviously :) I'm just making this ticket since it is absolutely must be an eventual goal for us and nobody else has made a ticket yet, even though IPython 0.12 has been out for about three months.
comment:4 Changed 10 years ago by
To be honest Fernando Perez and I talked about it on the mailing list at the time of ipython 0.11 and I said I would tell him what happens when we use ipython 0.11+ with sage because he is interested. For various reason I haven't been able to go back to it. But some sage-on-gentoo users eventually got a taste of it when it finally landed in the portage tree.
So first hurdle: do something about the crash handling.
comment:5 Changed 10 years ago by
- Cc iandrus added
comment:6 Changed 10 years ago by
I'm working on this now, and have made quite a bit of progress. As an added bonus, making the Sage customizations to IPython is quite a bit cleaner. I should hopefully be able to clean out the mess in sage/misc/preparser_ipython.py and sage/misc/interpreter.py .
comment:7 Changed 10 years ago by
This will fix #4413.
comment:8 Changed 10 years ago by
Great, I'm glad you're on the case! :)
comment:9 Changed 10 years ago by
- Cc vbraun added
comment:10 Changed 10 years ago by
What about zmq/pyzmq? It would really add to the functionality and I'm interested in the parallel/cluster support. But, strictly speaking, its not necessary to run ipython. Its also used in the new notebook so maybe its time for it to become a standard package?
comment:11 Changed 10 years ago by
- Cc jason added
CCing Jason as he expressed interest on sage-devel.
comment:12 Changed 10 years ago by
mhansen: we'd love to see your work-in-progress if it's available somewhere. I just spent some time reading the IPython docs again and thinking about how we could use it to implement the notebook hub and worker processes.
comment:13 Changed 10 years ago by
I've posted patches which let Sage work with IPython 0.12 as well as cleaning up some old messy code. These should be in a state where they're ready to review.
I haven't done anything with preparing an spkg yet.
comment:14 Changed 10 years ago by
- Description modified (diff)
I've updated the instructions in the description. Please correct if I messed something up.
See #12167 for a related ticket: how we deal with IPython configuration files.