On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Ondrej Certik <ond...@certik.cz> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 12:57 PM, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Ondrej Certik <ond...@certik.cz> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> is there some place with instructions how to host the sage notebook on
>>> my own server, including security etc.? I found this so far:
>>>
>>> http://wiki.sagemath.org/DanDrake/JustEnoughSageServer
>>
>> Basically:
>>
>> (1) Setup a virtual machine with your favorite linux distro.  Use vmware
>> or VirtualBox or whatever.
>>
>> (2) Install Sage into it.
>>
>> (3) Type notebook? and read it.
>>
>> There is also a nice document that Luiz Felipe Martins wrote and sent
>> me offlist.
>> I just forwarded it to you.
>
> Thanks a low William. That document is exaclty what I was looking for.

You're welcome.

>>
>>> I want to host a C++ finite element library that we are developing[1]
>>> on the web, using Python (resp. Cython) for people to play with, so
>>> that they don't have to download and fiddle with installation and
>>> dependencies and setup. So I need a Python shell and images, 2D are
>>> ok, but maybe I can even find ways to hook it to the 3D plotting.
>>
>>>
>>> I hate preparsing, e.g. 1 returning Integer(1), so I was living with a
>>> feeling that sage notebook is too much hooked into sage, but I just
>>> realized that if I turn the Python mode in, I can use it as a Python
>>> shell, with tab-completion and everything. So that's really cool. And
>>> I can host sympy or anything else I want in there the same way.
>>
>> It would also be trivial to slightly modify the sage notebook code so that
>> the *default* system at the top selected is Python instead of Sage.
>> You could also setup things so whatever libraries are relevant to finite
>> element modeling are preloaded.
>
> Yes, I didn't realise it is that trivial. Thanks for the help, I'll
> report back when we get this working.

If you have trouble trying to make the above changes -- which is
entirely possible -- please complain.

William

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