ipywidgets 6 support

[kain88-de]

What is the current reason for nglview to not support ipywidets 6?
Is there a way others could help to make the transition?

[hainm]

master branch does support ipywidgets 5, 6 and 7.

However, the ipywidgets 6 has bug(s) and it doesn't have stable API (some changed in v7).

[kain88-de]

Is there any knows when the newest version will be out? It also looks like from the issue discussion as this was a bug in NGL.

My personal issue is that I'm starting to have to use nglviewer in a custom conda environment since other common widget packages all depend on ipywidgets6 now.

[hainm]

Is there any knows when the newest version will be out?

how's about tonight (US time)?

[kain88-de]

You mean a new version of nglviewer with conda packages that pin to ipywidgets 6? Sure I'm good with any date for that.

[hainm]

The problem is that I don't want to support ipywidgets 6. It's a transition from old API v5 to more stable (new) API v7.

If you really want to try with ipywidgets 6, please use git version of nglview.
cheers.

[hainm]

PS: I myself prefer to have an usable and stable software rather trying to experimenting bleeding-edge with lots of bugs.

[hainm]

I just tried nglview master branch with ipywidgets v6 and the below bug still exists

Note that we already have a fix for ipw v7: #618

So for now, no official support for ipywidgets 6.

[hainm]

Similar solution from beakerx:

twosigma/beakerx#5486

[hainm]

The next release of nglview will be compatible with ipywidgets 7.

https://github.com/arose/nglview/pull/635/files#diff-b4ef698db8ca845e5845c4618278f29aR2