On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 7:34 AM, Erik Bray <erik.m.b...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 3:48 PM, kcrisman <kcris...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I don't know if this is "really" using Sage in Anaconda, but anyway a poster >> on ask.sagemath has come up with something that might be of interest to >> those who have talked about this distribution in the past: >> http://ask.sagemath.org/question/32741/integrate-sage-jupyter-notebook-in-anaconda-python-distribution/?answer=32757#post-id-32757 > > No, I don't think it really has anything to do with Anaconda > specifically. In fact, by copying the kernel spec file into their > local share directory, really their solution will apply to whatever > Python distribution they're running the Jupyter notebook out of. > Their solution isn't a bad one actually. It does mean they have two > different Pythons running--the one in Anaconda and the one installed > with Sage--but that's not a big deal. If I understand how Jupyter > kernels work now, there would be two Python processes running anyways. > At worst, you're duplicating the number of Python module sources that > are cached in memory by using two separate Python distributions. > > There's also no reason they need to use Anaconda just to get Jupyter. > As you point out it comes with sage now. But even if it didn't they > could `pip install jupyter notebook` into $SAGE_LOCAL (using the pip > that comes with sage) and run that notebook installation all the same. > > It should also technically be possible (I haven't tried it yet, but I > intend to) to install sage into a conda environment by setting > $SAGE_LOCAL to the path to that environment. My bet is that there are > unknown bumps in the path, but that would be the general idea.
My impression is that Anaconda is basically meant to solve the same problem as "Sage the distribution", except that (1) it was started later, (2) has way more funding, (3) is focused on scientific software, (4) they are fully committed to it being a package manager, whereas often Sage developers will say our package manager is not a package manager, as an excuse for it not being very good in some ways. Thus: it would be really cool to investigate further integration with or leveraging of Anaconda for Sage! It would be cool if you or anybody else did so. -- William > > I feel like it may be poorly understood that sage provides its own > Python distribution. > > Erik > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- William (http://wstein.org) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
