[IPython-dev] Some sighs on using ipynb to make slides

[Yuxiang Wang]

Thomas,

Thank you for pointing me to the conda-recipes! I didn't realize that
it was open source (I have no idea why I'd think that way). I'll see
what I can do, probably that can also solve the installation of
reveal.js.

Thanks again!

-Shawn

On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 8:29 PM, Thomas Kluyver <takowl at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12 November 2014 17:19, Yuxiang Wang <yw5aj at virginia.edu> wrote:
>>
>> 1) What I was trying to express is actually now, Python packages
>> generally (more than IPython) rely a lot on non-python dependencies,
>> thus making it a pain for users (especially entry-level) to configure
>> the environment. For example, if I'd like to use IPython Notebook to
>> make a slide, I would need to google the solutions and install pandoc,
>> miktex, reveal.js, and of course git on the way. Once I figured it out
>> it sounds cool to me, but this is a major factor to lower Python's
>> popularity as a scientific tool... I feel that most people using R is
>> because R Studio did a lot of these things for them.
>>
>> 2) But - as that said, it's more like "pure whining" because it takes
>> non-trivial effort to change this situation to such a huge ecosystem.
>> And the situation is changing - I think conda is there to solve these
>> issues (configuring Cython on 64-bit windows used to be such a pain,
>> but now it's much easier!). :)
>
>
> Yep, I would say conda is definitely the best approach here. There's no
> reason in principle you couldn't make a conda package for something like
> pandoc (though Min tried it, and doing it properly, with the Haskell
> platform as a build dependency, gets interesting). Conda itself is open
> source, and there's a big repository of recipes for it
> (https://github.com/conda/conda-recipes/ ), so if you want to help improve
> the situation, that's where I'd start.
>
>>
>> 3) Detailed questions - you mentioned the "(included) JS stuff", so
>> are we going to have an IPython distribution with reveal.js included?
>
>
> I think we have considered it, but it's not currently in our plans.
>
> Thomas
>
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Yuxiang "Shawn" Wang
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University of Virginia
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