You can do this locally? I tried using JuliaBox in my classes last year, but it was a bit of disaster, as it was unreliable.
> On 16 Nov 2015, at 7:53 PM, Sisyphuss <zhengwend...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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/ > <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?