Re: [edx-code] adding python packages to edx conda

2017-04-19 Thread Ned Batchelder
It's not that Open edX support conda requirements files. When you write your XBlock, you will have a setup.py, and you can put whatever Python packages you want in the install_requires value there. But that is only for Python packages. There isn't a mechanism that will automatically install

Re: [edx-code] adding python packages to edx conda

2017-04-19 Thread Robert M
I believe there are some conda packages that include FFPMEG binaries otherwise I will give instructions on how to install binaries. Anyways, was not sure how xBlocks were installed/deployed in edx. I thought maybe xBlocks were special packages that were only loaded via the Studio or something

[edx-code] FYI: new Open edX Development wiki space

2017-04-19 Thread Andy Armstrong
We recently performed an audit of our Confluence wiki spaces, and discovered that a large amount of our best material is not being indexed by search engines because access is only permitted to registered users. In particular, both the Architecture and Engineering spaces had such a restrictive

[edx-code] Re: Mastery learning xblock

2017-04-19 Thread Mattijs Joosten
Thank you very much for your post, Piotr. I really appreciate it. My idea for a block actually started with parameterized problems with variables to be substituted with a value from a list. For example: "$firstname $lastname (age $age) has Dutch basic health insurance and no supplementary