readme clean

[Robinlovelace]

• Shift readme to quarto
• Update binder, lets see if it works

[Robinlovelace]

Regarding Binder, it did work last time I tried it:

However, the image was v. out of date. Let's try with the updated settings...

[itamarst]

You probably want to tell people to install with pip inside a virtualenv.

[Robinlovelace]

You probably want to tell people to install with pip inside a virtualenv.

Aha, good idea, so as not to install system-wide right?

[Robinlovelace]

So it would be something like:

python3 -m venv geocompy
source geocompy/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

Right? Looking at this: https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/guides/installing-using-pip-and-virtual-environments/

[Robinlovelace]

Regarding Binder, it does actually work now. Worth re-adding mention of it to the README?

[Robinlovelace]

The working bit:

[itamarst]

Isolation is good reason for venv, but also system-wide installation is starting to be unsupported on newer Linux distributions, so people will get mysterious errors if they try to install globally.

[Robinlovelace]

Think this is good to merge. Unless there are any objections plan to do so today. Also if you're working on this ATM @michaeldorman (have seen your recent commits), quick review appreciated. Feel free to merge also.

[michaeldorman]

Think this is good to merge. Unless there are any objections plan to do so today. Also if you're working on this ATM @michaeldorman (have seen your recent commits), quick review appreciated. Feel free to merge also.

Looks good to me, thanks @Robinlovelace and everyone