Force downgrade nbconvert #506
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Heya! Can you gimme some reasons for why you'd want to do this? nbconvert 4.x is incompatible with the version of notebook we are running, and will cause starting user servers to fail. See berkeley-dsep-infra/data100-19s#59 where we tried something like this with data100 and failed. |
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Hey! nbconvert 4.x is the last versions of nbconvert in which converting notebooks to PDFs displays errors when the Latex fails to compile instead of silently aborting the compilation, and having a half-rendered PDF that includes no cell beyond the one with failed LaTex. As 140's grading pipeline involves students exporting their notebooks to PDFs, it's rather critical that students be made aware when their submission isn't full. I'm not aware of any way to enable this behavior in nbconvert >= 5. |
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@dibyaghosh there seems to be no way to use nbconvert < 5 with the current version of notebook we have either. We might have to try going back notebook versions slowly to see if any version works. In the meantime, @ryanlovett is trying to fix this in nbconvert jupyter/nbconvert#947 |
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Got it! Thanks for checking up on this - as for compatibility between nbconvert and notebook, I know we successfully ran nbconvert @ 4.3.0 in Spring 2017, so if we can find the config file there, we can probably find a compatible version. https://github.com/data-8/jupyterhub-k8s/tree/a1234b23588ba91509c366c6c442d8ca1f799e32/user This was the repo used back then, but it doesn't seem that a version of notebook is specified? I haven't looked too carefully... |
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