Brian Ward

I understand there is still some hesitance towards cmdliner 2.0.0 in opam for backwards compatibility concerns, but is it possible that there will be a intermediary point where the source...

Ah, that would also work! I don’t think anyone besides me is really clamoring for it at the moment, so I’ll take a look at the duct tape version but...

There is an older design document which proposes this feature at https://github.com/stan-dev/design-docs/pull/7 You are correct that there are some implementation challenges, but hearing that people would really use it is...

> I'm not sure if we actually have the _jac suffix to parallel the _lp suffix in user-defined functions, but we should (@WardBrian will know). It's called `_jacobian`, not `_jac`,...

If you install cmdstanpy from conda, you will also get cmdstan from conda, which sets this: https://github.com/conda-forge/cmdstan-feedstock/blob/main/recipe/build.sh#L12 (and some other flags, to actually just use TBB from conda on non-Windows)...

I don’t think Stan can even be compiled by MSVC as it stands today, so it would always be either gcc or clang I suspect

The parser wouldn't need to handle lists, just return the string which we can then `split` on `','` I think it would be nice from a cmdstan standpoint to remove...

If this persists please open an issue against cmdstanr

This is really another variant of the bug (https://github.com/stan-dev/cmdstan/issues/1029) where if the fixed_param sampler is run when the model lacks parameters, it still reports running HMC: the output here is...

This same behavior also led to some confusion on the forums due to the `inits` argument being reported as the same in each file: https://discourse.mc-stan.org/t/cmdstanpy-supplying-multiple-paths-as-inits-writes-to-tmp/34968