This has two important implications:
1)
This message is addressed to anyone who installed yt from source and updates their install regularly. If that’s not your case you can jump to the second item
So I’m reaching out to raise awareness about an upcoming change to yt's main branch
In short:
You need to install it to keep your local install working after the PR above is merged
You can perform the installation right now if you wish to, you don’t need to wait on the PR to get merged.
Run
python -m pip install cmyt
And you’re done ! Conda-distribution is planned to land soon after the pull request is merged.
2)
you can now use yt’s colormaps with raw matplotlib and outside of yt if you want to. See cmyt’s documentation (one page).
Cheers !
Clément