Docker, Python and Web

This week has seen three new/updated projects announced on mesa-users.

Evan Bauer announces MESA-Docker:

It’s a Docker container with MESA already installed, and it should
work with any OS that supports Docker, including Windows 10.  This
should serve as a useful tool for those who are ready to invest
some extra effort to step beyond the limited options of MESA-Web,
but not yet comfortable configuring their environment for full
installation.

Rob Farmer announces pyMesa:

This is a set of low level python bindings for MESA to allow easy
access to the individual MESA modules.  This is aimed for those
people who want to quickly get a result from a MESA module and
don’t want to worry about getting fortran code compiled and
working.

Carl Fields announces updates to MESA-Web:

1. Users can now choose to upload a custom reaction rate.
2. More mixing parameters available for calculations.
3. Jobs now run for 4hrs or until iron core collapse.