Bethany Nicholson

@adowling2 I have a 95% complete solution for supporting Block and Expression components in the Simulator on my fork (branch name: simulator_v2). There is still an edge case I'm working...

This comment from @mcsoini seems to be missing from the issue for some reason. I’m not sure if this was intentional or a GitHub error but I think the proposed...

> What's the right way to handle initial condition calculation? Do we break off initial conditions to be solved first like we do with the PETSc integrator? Then the integrator...

@eslickj I agree. I think we should close this until we have a compelling reason to support conda distribution.

I'm going to add some resources below for whoever ends up working on an IDAES conda package. Both Pyomo and PyUtilib are distributed as conda packages on conda-forge. The feedstock...

It looks like the solution was updated at some point and the text in the Jupyter notebook was not updated to match

@qiniuweihe is this still an issue for you? If so, please post the solver output by adding the option `tee=True` to your call to `solve`.

What versions of Pyomo and Numpy are you using? I'm unable to recreate this error using the latest version of Pyomo and Numpy 1.17.3. ``` >>> from pyomo.environ import *...

@shermanjasonaf what's the status with this PR, is it ready for review?

Converting this to draft/WIP until the Pyomo.DOE PR is merged