Hi DC1ers,

So we're whipping up a development environment as we go.  Robyn desired a 
place to install python code for testing, and after trading some emails 
and phone calls, I think we have a procedure for handling this.  Your 
comments are welcome.  

First, I mentioned that in my previous email about sourcing a file to load 
the lsst environment; THE NAME OF THAT FILE HAS CHANGED.  Please, now
load the environment by either typing 

   source /usr/projects/LSST/DC1/setlsst.csh
or 
   . /usr/projects/LSST/DC1/setlsst.sh

depending on your preference.  

LSST_HOME is being set to /usr/projects/LSST/DC1 (actually you'll see
a slightly different path on lsstarchive); however, we probably don't
want to put code there for debugging purposes.  Rather, it would be 
better to use a sandbox for this purpose.  So, I've set up some
support this in the enviroment setup scripts.  

So before you source the setlsst.csh file, you can set the LSST_DEVEL 
environment variable to your development directory.  The setlsst file  
will then update you command path and PYTHONPATH to include this 
development area.  You can then run "makesandbox" which will create some 
directories that our installers will need.  

Meanwhile, Russell is working on taking advantage of this in our python
module setup.py file(s) so that you can install new modules into your
development area.  Python modules will be installed into lib/python.  

Is this going to work?

cheers,
Ray


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