binder setup broken

[akhmerov]

Trying to run a plot with a latex label results in an error:

RuntimeError [Call ipython.show_traceback() for details]
LaTeX was not able to process the following string:
b'lp'

[akhmerov]

If binder still works, we should link to it from the website.

[basnijholt]

I've recompiled it and the plots don't work. I think we need to install LaTeX.

[akhmerov]

I see there are at least a couple of conda packages with texlive. Maybe those would be enough?

[basnijholt]

Let's try: 91180de.

[basnijholt]

Didn't work.

[akhmerov]

What's the error message?

[akhmerov]

Perhaps it's easier to test by just setting up a conda env locally.

[basnijholt]

Same error message as before.

[akhmerov]

Right now we don't store the notebooks in the repository, let alone their outputs. This makes binder not directly useful to us.

However there's a relatively easy way to fix the problem: we should run the building of the image in the binder's dockerfile. This would be too inefficient if this was triggered by the users, however we can trigger the builds from pipelines for master manually by hitting mybinder.org/v2/gh/org/repo/ref (the API one is rather /api/build/gh/owner/repo/ref).

The only problem about this is that we cannot check whether the binder build succeeded.

[akhmerov]

Closing as a duplicate of #230