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Documentation: Alternative way to obtain Astropy from Guix #14166
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Hi,
I've got a feature request for the next documentation update to include Guix as one the way to install Astropy and related packages. Having it in Guix may help to facilitate reproducible research in astronomy environment as it was successfully utilized in bio-informatics.
Description
Astropy and the whole chain of dependencies were fully packed in Guix and it might be mentioned in documentation as an alternative reproducible way to install it:
# Latest packed version
guix install python-astropy
# In time machine to have 1:1 reproducible environment
guix time-machine --commit=64e130fc6f26ba60d1e3e2c6ce49a57fb181ce0d -- install python-astropyRelated packages: https://packages.guix.gnu.org/search/?query=python-astropy
Thanks,
Oleg
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[-]Documentaion: Alternative way to obtain Astropy from Guix[/-][+]Documentation: Alternative way to obtain Astropy from Guix[/+]pllim commentedon Dec 23, 2022
Hello and thanks for your interest!
I have mixed feelings about this request. On one side, I like to make it easier for users to discover different ways they can get
astropybut on the other hand, if the distro does not catch up and things start to break, then we will also get open issues that we do not have the capacity or expertise to handle.We do mention
pipandcondabut those are pretty standard Python install commands. We do not tell people how toaptorhomebrewetc. In fact, we recently just removed mention of CASA (#14154). I wonder if such documentation is better served from your side.However, this is purely my personal opinion and I shall bring your request to the next dev telecon. Stay tuned!
hamogu commentedon Jan 6, 2023
Thank you for reaching out to us.
We discussed this at the dev telecon and agree with @pllim comments above: We don't have the resources to maintain (which includes testing!) a list of all ways to install astropy. In particular for GUIX, we don't have access to a system to run on and we noted that astropy version 5.2 is not available on GUIX yet, so it might be better for uses to use Python tools like pip anyway in that case.