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Newcomer docs is outdated #10841
Description
We have Outreachy participants running into astropy install issues when following the docs, so the docs needs some updates:
The following is from the slack thread https://astropy.slack.com/archives/C8U8VGQFM/p1602508591046500, they then have run into the issue of the missing extension-helpers:
Please I've run into a block walking through the worked example for contributing code to Astropy. I'm getting the following error when running pytest on the exercise branch (which has been installed into my virtual environment):
ImportError while loading conftest 'C:\Users\Mfonism\Codeville\OSSPython\AstroPy\astropy\astropy\conftest.py'.
..\..\__init__.py:104: in <module>
_check_requirement('erfa', __minimum_erfa_version__)
..\..\__init__.py:98: in _check_requirement
raise ImportError(msg)
E ImportError: erfa version 1.7 or later must be installed to use Astropy. erfa is not installed.
Pyerfa does however show up in my virtual environment with pip show pyerfa.
Name: pyerfa
Version: 1.7.0
Summary: Python bindings for ERFA
Home-page: https://github.com/liberfa/pyerfa
Author: The Astropy Developers
Author-email: [email protected]
License: BSD 3-Clause License
Location: c:\users\mfonism\codeville\osspython\astropy\astropy\env38\lib\site-packages
Requires: numpy
Required-by: astropy
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Cadair commentedon Oct 12, 2020
I have been looking into this and following the guide I have been unable to reproduce. I have asked the person who ran into it for more details but if others on different platforms / configurations could test that would be really helpful.
bsipocz commentedon Oct 23, 2020
I think #10849 sufficiently addressed this to close it for now. Thanks!