Modular LCA approach in AB

[cardosan]

Hi, I was wondering if there is any plan to include also the modular LCA approch (i.e. https://activity-browser.readthedocs.io/en/latest/metaprocess_introduction.html) in AB in the near future. Best Giuseppe

[dgdekoning]

Hey @cardosan,

This is definitely something that has been discussed between @bsteubing and myself several times. The amount of work required to insert modular LCA into the current AB is not trivial, given that it will have to play nice with all the other features that have been added in the meantime.

The first things to do would be to convert the code to support the newer brightway2, as well as python 3.

The link you gave leads to a 404 when trying to view the code in bitbucket, here is the github version of the code: https://github.com/bsteubing/modular-lca/

[bsteubing]

@cardosan thanks for making this an issue! I suggest that people add a comment here if they also feel this would be great to have (I personally feel so - that was part of the original motivation to build the AB, and then during a later revision it fell out again, unfortunately). I regularly get emails from people asking if this approach is available. We are also limited in our time and budget for AB development, so any volunteers would be REALLY nice to have!

[marc-vdm]

@cardosan This is currently on my list of things I want to do. If I definitely commit to this _{pun intended}, it will likely be at least 4 months before we have a working version of this. I will update here if/when we start on this.

[MaximeAgez]

I suggest that people add a comment here if they also feel this would be great to have

I second that it would be REALLY nice to have. My team is reluctant to transfer to AB mainly because this feature is absent.