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I just tried to install iPython on Fedora using dnf and it depends on Node.JS. Really?

• deleted 11y ago
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• zeckalpha 11y ago
  Why not?
  • smegel 11y ago
    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.
    • stygiansonic 11y ago
      This is probably why it was renamed to Jupyter Notebook.[0] 0. https://blog.jupyter.org/2015/04/15/the-big-split/ https://blog.jupyter.org/2015/04/15/the-big-split/
• StavrosK 11y ago
  It doesn't do any such thing for me. I `pip install`ed it just now and it ran fine. You mean the shell, right?
  • smegel 11y ago
    When I do this on Fedora 22: repoquery --requires python-ipython-notebook I get node.js stuff.
    • masklinn 11y ago
      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/development.html 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.
• hogu 11y ago
  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 server is written in tornado