Does it have any new features? I am a big fan of IPython Notebook/Jupyter, and use it daily, but from the release note I don't see what's that cool in v 4.0 (from the users perspective).
I.e. is there a reason to actually upgrade? (Against typical cons - notebooks are not backwards compatible.)
Yes iPython is no longer the project but only the parts that actually deal with Python. So the kernel is now 100% agnosit. For users this means if your a polygot (I sort am one) you can now use Jupyter for Haskell or R or Julia.
I think that if people will let the name iPython go we will see an explosion of usage by other communities and see new features added to the project.
Yes 4.0 is suppose to make it so that the kernels are much easier to install and work with. I haven't been home to install it on my Linux boxes nor the Linux boxes at work. Only thing I can try is Windows and well I HATE working with Python in windows.
>Since all of these packages were part of IPython 3, they are all starting out at 4.0. They won't be updated in coordination with each other as their APIs and release schedules will be allowed to advance at their own respective paces.
I can see this leading to problems. Are we going to be left in a position of new features being added to one project while being unusable because the other project release schedule is lagging behind a bit?
Aw man, Hacker News is going to fail soon because hackernews.com is taken by someone else. (At least this means I'll spend my time writing useful software instead of making snarky comments on the internet.)
On a more serious note, if I'm reading the article right, `ipython` is still the IPython CLI interface, it's just that less-related commands like `ipython notebook` are now `jupyter notebook`, right?
They are not a company, but an academic very open source project with substantial grant funding. Last week I talked with Fernando Perez (IPython founder) about the name choice, and he and the other devs thought very hard (and deeply) about it, and researched the choice of name, and they definitely have no plans to change. I really like the new name and inclusive vision to support everything, rather than just Python.
ipython uses (last I checked) node.js or pandoc(haskell) to convert markdown to html in nbconvert. You shouldn't need node or haskell if you're not using nbconvert
The notebook is a web interface, node-based tools (bower, less) are used to package the in-browser part: http://jupyter-notebook.readthedocs.org/en/latest/developmen... It's unclear why fedora adds it as a dependency, it shouldn't be necessary for a packaged notebook application as far as I can see, only to package or run from source.
Well it also installs Python Tornado which does event based web serving...and I would think iPython Notebook would be written in...Python. Maybe its just me.
Same here (on Windows). The files created in scripts directory are actually python files without extension. Tried to do a python jupyter notebook but then it doesn't find the jupyter-notebook script neither.
Seems to me like the split is the biggest part of the update. One reason is that an iPython install now only includes the iPython terminal interface. On Ubuntu though one already needed to install iPython notebook separately (apt-get install ipython3-notebook) so not a lot changes, I suppose.
