[CIG-MC] CIG-MC Digest, Vol 79, Issue 1

[Rajesh Kommu]

We will definitely provide new versions of the cookbooks, and the manual
will be updated with these new versions of the cookbooks. We also plan to
provide a tool that would convert your existing Python-based .cfg files to
the corresponding C-based versions.

Best,

Rajesh Kommu
Software Developer, CIG


On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 9:15 PM, Catherine Cooper <cmcooper at wsu.edu> wrote:

>
> I am also concerned about this development.  The cookbooks provided with
> the manual will only work if the pyre version of CitcomS is installed.
>  Will there be new cookbooks developed?  Or will they too no longer be
> supported?  These are valuable learning tools for new users including
> graduate students.  It would be a shame if there were no longer educational
> examples for new users to safely learn on.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Katie
>
>
> Catherine Cooper, Ph.D.
> Assistant Professor in Geophysics
> School of the Environment
> Washington State University
> (509)335-1501
> cmcooper at wsu.edu
>
>
> On Nov 21, 2013, at 9:03 PM, Thorsten Becker wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> While I am not a python/pyre user, I wonder how this affects the abilities
> to couple regional and global codes, for example? This is another extension
> I am not using, but this always seemed very helpful potentially? Wouldn't
> this be useful to maintain?
>
> When I compile CitcomS, I simply use the --nopyre option or whatever it's
> called, and this seems to get rid off many of the issues mentioned above?
>
>  I can see how this must have all been discussed but I am not aware of the
> reasoning, sorry, so please excuse if these are naive questions.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Thorsten
>
>
>
> Thorsten W Becker - USC
>
>
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>> Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 10:47:06 -0800
>> From: Eric Heien <emheien at ucdavis.edu>
>> To: CIG-MC at geodynamics.org
>> Subject: [CIG-MC] CitcomS Python Removal
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>> Hello,
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>> The CitcomS developers have recently decided to remove Python and Pyre
>> support from CitcomS.  There are several reasons for this:
>>
>> - The Python interface in CitcomS is not compatible with Python 2.7 or
>> above.  Python 2.7 was released in 2010, meaning most systems set up in the
>> last 3 years won?t support Python in CitcomS.
>> - The interface requires downloading extra packages - this happens
>> automatically but can cause compilation failure on some platforms.
>> - The interface opaquely assigns some parameters with values not
>> controlled by the user.
>> - The Python interface adds a level of complexity making it harder to
>> debug the program and understand how data structures are used/modified
>> during a run.
>> - Many of the major CitcomS users do not use the Python interface.
>>
>> We plan to remove this functionality from CitcomS and provide tools to
>> convert Python based input files to the normal input file format.  Relevant
>> logic that was in the Python framework will be moved into the main CitcomS
>> code.  This change will be implemented over the coming year and
>> incorporated into a future CitcomS release.
>>
>> If you have any concerns about this decision or would like to weigh in,
>> feel free to contact me or the cig-mc mailing list.
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> -Eric
>>
>>
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