Supporting compas<2.0 in compas_notebook?

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Hi all,

I pinned compas-notebook=0.3.3 some time ago as a dependency for jax_fdm and it worked like a charm. Until Github actions told me otherwise last week.

Is there a pip- or conda-installable version of compas-notebook that supports compas<2.0 out of the box?

I was surprised not only to see that version 0.3.3 was not available on pypi anymore, but that all previous and subsequent published versions of compas-notebook on pypi require compas>2.0.
jax_fdm will be pinned to compas<2.0 for the next couple of months, but I need compas-notebook to continue working smoothly with a group of collaborators for the coming weeks on a project that relies on displaying stuff on jupyter notebooks / google colab.

Thanks for your help,
~Rafael

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hi rafael,

compas_notebook is indeed meant for COMPAS 2 only, and has no releases that are compatible with COMPAS 1.

the version of compas_notebook that was available on PyPI for COMPAS 1 was unfortunately a very old and accidental release that has been replaced completely.

if you let me know which functionality you need specifically, perhaps we can come up with a temp solution for your current collaboration?

best,
tom

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@Li_Chen do you still have a version of the old compas_notebook backed up somewhere?

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@arpastrana i have sent an invitation for the old archived repo to arpastrana on github…

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@arpastrana could you check if a source install with this repo works for you? then we can take it from there…

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Hey @tomvanmele, thanks for the access to the old repo! I got it. Let me test the source install later today and get back to you as soon as I have news.

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Hi @tomvanmele. I have cloned and installed that repo from source. I need to mirror the code to a public repository on my account to be able to install it on google collab via !pip install git+<repo url>. I went ahead and did it to check if it works on collab. It does. But to double check, would we be okay with me republishing the code? Thanks.

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yes, no problem. happy that the problem is solved…

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Excellent, thanks for helping me resolve this!
In other things, is there a summary somewhere that informs compas developers about what changed (especially what doesn’t work anymore) between compas 1 and 2, and how to migrate between versions? This would be very helpful to speed up the transitioning.

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yes, we are working on a migration guide for the docs. i will add a first draft soon. we will also go through most of this during the developer day on the 30th of May…

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Wish I could go! But you know, Zurich is a bit far at the moment :nerd_face: Looking forward to the outcomes of the dev day and to the migration guide!