On Tuesday, November 15, 2016, Dima Pasechnik <dimp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Tuesday, November 15, 2016 at 2:29:30 PM UTC, Erik Bray wrote: >> >> On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 6:43 PM, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 8:40 AM, Erik Bray <erik....@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 4:49 PM, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 6:21 AM, Stan <schy...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>>> Dear all, >> >>>> >> >>>> A student of mine has been using SMC because the sage appliance in >> >>>> virtualbox did not appear very useful with the jupyter notebook. Now >> that he >> >>>> encountered a critical bug in SMC (reported offline), he is back >> with the >> >>> >> >>> I'm not aware of this bug. I don't know of any critical bugs in SMC. >> >>> There are exactly 22 known SMC *bugs*, which you can see listed here, >> >>> all of which we plan to fix ASAP: >> >>> >> >>> https://github.com/sagemathinc/smc/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q= >> is%3Aissue%20is%3Aopen%20label%3AI-bug%20sort%3Acreat >> ed-asc%20-label%3Ablocked >> >>> >> >>> On can also use SMC via docker on Windows, Linux and OS X, as >> explained here: >> >>> >> >>> https://github.com/sagemathinc/smc/blob/master/src/dev/ >> docker/README.md >> >>> >> >>> I wish I could recommend the official sagemath docker images, but it >> >>> looks like they haven't been updated in 6 months to 1 year ago? (What >> >>> the heck?) >> >>> >> >>> https://hub.docker.com/u/sagemath/ >> >> >> >> >> >> I'm not sure where you're looking-- >> > >> > >> > Click on the link above. I clicked on sagemath/sage since it is ON >> > TOP (hence what you find with a typical google search), and it has >> > vastly more downloads than all other docker Sage images put together. >> > It's clearly the one people are getting for some reason. >> > >> > I then clicked on the sagemath-jupyter one, since -- based on the name >> > -- I imagine that's the other reasonable choice if a person wants a >> > web interface... and it is 6 months old. >> > >> > Clicking on all of them now, only sagemath/sagemath has been updated >> > recently. All others are out of date. >> > >> >> the image called sagemath/sage is >> >> definitely deprecated and should be removed. >> > >> > OK. Who has the power to do that? Also, I wonder what is driving so >> > much traffic there? >> >> Please see https://github.com/sagemath/docker/issues/4 >> <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fsagemath%2Fdocker%2Fissues%2F4&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNHTpXG0nMQbI6wwvnbQEGBxSjGf9w> >> >> I don't know what's driving so much traffic there, but I need to find >> a way to *clearly* deprecate it without breaking things for whoever it >> is that's relying on it. > > > Oh dear. It seems that the barrier to posting "official" docker images > is way too low. > There is also swenson/sage, dieudonne/sage, gissehel/sagemath, > xuyouwen/sagemath, > and probably many more sagemath docker images over there, some old, some > not... > > Probably the best way for the time being just post the "latest" image with > 7.4 > to sagemath/sage (previous images would still available via tags, IMHO) > so that it is in sync with sagemath/sagemath. > > > >> Anyways, the docker containers really should >> be preferred over the VM. Forcing people on Windows to use a VM is >> terrible. I tried to push on this a few months ago but it either >> wasn't ready or nobody listened. >> > > The main problem with using VM is setting it properly. AFAIK on Windows > you still have VM > in the play, so you basically provide something that is meant to work > better, right? > I don't know exactly the situation with docket + windows, but Docker on OS X uses a very lightweight hypervisor and automatically forwards networks and makes OS X host paths available. It's pretty damn amazing, and it's also very new - just out of beta! They do something very similar for Windows. > > How about we do some more testing of the sagemath/sagemath image, in > particular > on Windows and OSX, and then (if we're happy) advertise it on sagemath.org > and elsewhere? > > Dima > > -- > 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 > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','sage-devel%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com');> > . > To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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. > -- Sent from my massive iPhone 6 plus. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. 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