Run a JuliaBox server?
On Monday, November 16, 2015 at 9:05:38 AM UTC+1, Sheehan Olver wrote: > > Another requirement is that the packages are shared across users, to save > disk space. Gadfly + PyPlot + IJulia (with Conda.jl version of Jupyter) > takes over 750MB. Does .julia need to be writable? If not, I guess both > options are still possible. > > On Monday, November 16, 2015 at 2:05:45 PM UTC+11, Sheehan Olver wrote: >> >> >> I'm trying to figure out the "best" way to create a stable version of >> Julia + Gadfly + PyPlot + IJulia (+ other packages?) for a semester long >> course. I don't want to have the students run Pkg.add(...)/Pkg.update(), >> as packages have a tendency to occasionally break on updates, and it's a >> headache dealing with this during the lecture. >> >> Two possible solutions I can think of of are: >> >> 1) Prebake a .julia folder that contains all the necessary resources, >> with a script to reset in case the students break it with Pkg.update(). >> 2) Use system image >> >> http://docs.julialang.org/en/release-0.4/devdocs/sysimg/ >> >> that includes all the necessary packages. It's not really clear how to >> do this from the documentation, though. I'm also not sure how that would >> interact with Pkg.update() though, so probably instructions to delete >> .julia would also need to be given. >> >> >> Any other options I'm missing? If 2 is recommended, any tutorial how to >> do this? >> >
