Lsst_sims version 2.3.5 available via `eups distrib install`

Archive Sims Announcements
#1

eups distrib install lsst_sims -t sims will now get you version 2.3.5 of the lsst_sims stack.

Changes since version 2.3.4:

sims_movingObjects is no longer a part of lsst_sims. If you want to install sims_movingObjects, you will have to run eups distrib install sims_movingObjects -t sims. This means that lsst_sims no longer depends on oorb or gfortran.

sims_catUtils now includes a model for M, L, and T dwarf flares. This is accessible from the VariabilityStars mixin in

sims_catUtils/python/lsst/sims/catUtils/mixins/VariabilityMixin.py

imported with

from lsst.sims.catUtils.mixins import VariabilityStars

Various plot- and movie-generating scripts in sims_maf are now python 3 compatible.

Note: You still need to make sure that your ~.astropy/config/astropy.cfg file has log_to_file=False in order for the build to pass. This will hopefully be fixed in the next release.

This version is built against the weekly tag w.2017.18 of the DM stack.

#2

Note that this distribution is now compatible with numpy 1.12 (while v13.0 was not).

#3

An updated version 2.3.5.1 has been issued. The only change is that one of the unit tests in sims_alertsim which suffers from a race condition has been marked as an expectedFailure. If you have successfully installed version 2.3.5, you do not need to do anything. If your installation failed on sims_alertsim, try eups distrib install lsst_sims -t sims again.