Hey Jon,

No problem, instructions on wiki pages always have to be taken with a grain
of salt. I'm happy to spend a little time updating the wiki instructions.
Thanks for getting me set up with a matforge account!


Charles



Charles


On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 5:51 AM, Guyer, Jonathan E. Dr. <
jonathan.gu...@nist.gov> wrote:

> Charles,
>
> Thank you for bringing this to our attention. Those instruction wikis are
> necessarily snapshots in time and it's very hard (pronounced "impossible")
> to keep them up to date. I went to go fix the "svn co" for FiPy and
> realized that the instructions for NumPy and SciPy also refer to svn and
> that the whole page needed to be edited, which I didn't have time for.
>
> In that vein. It has just come to my attention that you have been waiting
> for over a month to get a matforge account in order to contribute to our
> wiki. This is absurd and you have my strongest apologies. I first learned
> of this Monday evening and immediately said to approve it, but I learned
> this morning that that still hasn't happened. I've just created your
> account and will send you your initial password offline. I wish we didn't
> require login at all, but we get overwhelmed with spam when we do that.
>
> - Jon
>
> On Dec 12, 2013, at 1:19 PM, Charles Reid <charlesre...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Thanks for updating PyPI. Actually the svn reference was not a slip, I
> was following instructions on this page to install Fipy from source:
> http://matforge.org/fipy/wiki/InstallFiPy/MacOSX/SnowLeopard#FiPy which
> gives an "svn co" command. I missed the information on the main page about
> the git repository.
> >
> > (But it should be noted that, when following the instructions on the
> page linked to, and using a source tarball from
> http://www.ctcms.nist.gov/fipy/download/, the installation process went
> smoothly.)
> >
> > Thanks again for the follow-up & links!
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Charles
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 7:05 AM, Guyer, Jonathan E. Dr. <
> jonathan.gu...@nist.gov> wrote:
> > On Dec 11, 2013, at 5:00 PM, Charles Reid <charlesre...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Answered my own question - it looks like some modules went missing
> between the 3.1 release tarball from the Fipy downloads page (
> http://www.ctcms.nist.gov/fipy/download/), which I was using,
> >
> > Actually, the issue is that PyPI never got updated. I've pushed version
> 3.1 to PyPI and filed a ticket to correct our release procedures (
> http://matforge.org/fipy/ticket/661). Thanks for bringing this to our
> attention.
> >
> >
> > > and the latest SVN version (which I assume is a better reflection of
> what easy_install or pip use).
> >
> > As a point of clarification, in case this wasn't a slip of the tongue,
> we no longer use SVN. We've been using Git for about a year and a half, so
> if your source checkouts are from SVN, they're quite obsolete. See
> http://www.ctcms.nist.gov/fipy/INSTALLATION.html#git-usage for more
> information.
> >
> >
> >
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