On Sep 2, 8:52 am, kcrisman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Karl-Dieter,
> We are running a VMWare server for fall classes. However, we have run > into the disturbing problem that if we want to use a newer version of > Sage (such as to get the plotting improvements), we would need to > (quoting William in the earlier version of this thread) "upload them > tediously one by one." This basically means we can't upgrade Sage in > the middle of the semester if even a few students decide to use Sage, > and we are hoping for a score or two or them to do so. Also, will the > user info migrate, or would they have to be readded? I am not sure, but the management aspect of the notebook is certainly not even close to where it should be. > One thing the admin has tried is copying old worksheets into different > possible directories, just as a crazy thing to do, for instance > givenhttp://groups.google.com/group/sage-support/browse_thread/thread/ef2d... > . Now,http://www.sagemath.org/doc/tut/node45.htmlmakes it clear > where the worksheet pages are supposed to live. But today I verified > that the version of at least one of my worksheets that in fact shows > up in the browser lives in ~/sage_notebook/worksheets/admin , while > others definitely live in ~/.sage/sage_notebook/worksheets/admin . It > isn't a case of a reference, either, because there is an older version > of the first worksheet in the .sage directory, while in the other case > the worksheet *only* exists in the .sage/ directory. So now I am > unsure whether I should even try to move my own worksheets around on > my personal computer! > > I would love to try to fix this but unfortunately know nothing about > these issues, and our admin is not likely to try to fix the code. Is > there any sense (on support or devel) of whether either of these > things might be resolved soon (or in the second case, if it's even > been noticed before - I haven't seen it in a fairly exhaustive sage- > support search)? We would obviously prefer if yes, but even if not, > then at least we can prepare for this properly and not send students > on wild goose chases for their data. The problem is covered by #2740 and maybe even #682. Timothy: Can you guess how much work this would be or what exactly would need to be done? > Thanks much. > - kcrisman Cheers, Michael --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
