Packaging requests: Jupyter Book

[JonathanReeve]

Project description
"Jupyter Book is an open source project for building beautiful, publication-quality books and documents from computational material."

Metadata

• homepage URL: https://jupyterbook.org/intro.html
• source URL: https://github.com/executablebooks/jupyter-book/
• license: bsd
• platforms: unix, linux, darwin

I've tried to package this myself, just to get a development shell working, but I think this is beyond me, in terms of complexity. Here's my broken attempt at packaging it, and here's a post on Discourse where I describe the errors I was getting, and here's a post on StackOverflow where I try to get help with packaging it.

[doronbehar]

I too tried to package jupyter-book, and I realized after a while that there are tons of new python packages to add as dependencies. Plus, I stumbled upon some issues upstream, example:

• https://github.com/executablebooks/MyST-NB/blob/52f7fb7f4b36ad5ac12a6625a78403b8b2dfd36b/setup.cfg#L47
• Tests fail jupyter/nbclient#201

And I stopped with packaging the dependency myst-nb. If anyone is interested, all my work is at:

https://github.com/doronbehar/nixpkgs/tree/pkg/jupyter-book

I won't continue working on this. The work left to be done, besides waiting for upstream to release a new version of myst-nb and fix the nbclient tests failing, is to package the commented out packages in jupyter-book/default.nix.