On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Rado<rki...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Having read a bit of the old notebook code, for the graph editor > (which I should polish and submit in the next few days), I think Sage > will greatly benefit from notebook rewrite. It is very possible to > make front-end applets like the graph editor once it is easy to talk > to the sage kernel, without going through the notebook. > > However, both solutions (codenode and ondrej) seem to complicate > things for single users by making them set-up two servers (one not > even local). Is there a way to bundle django engine with twisted's > sage server? This is exactly how codenode works - there is only one webserver, and that is twisted. Django is running off of twisted's wsgi implementation.
The command-line utility, "codenode-admin", hides all this, making what happens behind the scenes totally transparent to the normal, every day user. Or at least ship it with sage and start it on a separate > port when 'notebook' is executed. So that the user can have the sage > computational engine and the new notebook (probably done with django's > web platform) on the same machine. > Also I think codenode has a lot of potential, but it is lost on non- > Mathematica users who find it hard to manipulate cells. I teach > Mathematica-based math courses and know exactly how non-intuitive > students find the cell structure at first. Actually I thought Sage > model is weird at first (being used to Mathematica), by letting me > jump from cell to cell and erasing them so easy. Now I preferred it to > Mathematica's rigidness. This is yet another excellent data point making it clear to me that we must adopt the easier-to-user sage style interface. This will be done soon. thanks, Alex > > Rado > > > -- Alex Clemesha clemesha.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
