Using previous versions of WhiteboxTools about whitebox-python

[giswqs]

The whitebox Python package is just a wrapper, and it will always download the latest WhiteboxTools backend during the first time use. I don't think you need to pin the version. The new version should work the same way as the old new. Try it on local computer before doing things in the cloud. If it works fine locally, the. The problem probably lies in the setup of your cloud environment

[rickedanielson]

Do you want me to download the version of WBT that I need (there seem to be subtle and important differences between v1.5.0 and v2.1.0)? Any hints where that would come from and where it would it go? I'm not in the cloud, just a conda environment.

[giswqs]

I am not sure what differences you are referring to. All tools available in v1.5.0 are also available in v2.1.0. The WBT binaries hosted on whiteboxgeo.com are always the latest version. There is no way to retrieve older versions. Again, try the tool on your local computer and post specific error messages here so that we can figure out whether it is a WBT backend issue or Python frontend issue.

[rickedanielson]

I know whiteboxgeo.com is not serving v1.5.0, but "git checkout v1.5.0" is still possible, so I presume an older backend can always be substituted (not sure which files though, any hints?) Just for reference, I'm not sure where I confuse that I'm working in a cloud (all errors above are from a thinkpad, my local machine). Also, WBT output is being used as input to a hydrologic model, where it may be important which version of WBT I use. If this is all too unfamiliar, we can close. I suspect it's a hard issue.

[giswqs]

Here is a copy of WBT v1.5.0 that I kept on an old computer. You can unzip the file the replace the WBT binary whitebox_tool in the following path with the v1.5.0 binary.

~/.conda/envs/geo/lib/python3.x/site-packages/whitebox/

[rickedanielson]

Thank you, although I'm afraid that, having substituted my existing WBT directory for your zipped WBT directory (i.e., within my /home/soft/miniconda3/envs/wrfh_gis_env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/whitebox dir), I continue to receive "Using WhiteboxTools v2.1.0 by Dr. John B. Lindsay (c) 2017-2021". Maybe this isn't simply a frontend or backend issue(?)

For reference, my /home/soft/.conda dir only contains one file (environments.txt) and that only contains:

/home/soft/miniconda3
/home/soft/miniconda3/envs/wrfh_gis_env

[giswqs]

Not the WBT directory. There is a binary outside the WBT directory. That's the one you need to replace

[rickedanielson]

Yes, this works (and was an easier experiment without the need to recompile v1.5.0). Thanks for the confirmation.