Oh, one other minor snag: I did not edit the test scripts, and several dependencies for those were missing. They were all things that we were not going to teach, and thus hadn't been included in the installation intentionally, but the failures in the test script made people worried that things weren't set up properly.
On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 10:09 AM Michael Sarahan <[email protected]> wrote: > I tested a different way to do this based around conda: > http://jiarong.github.io/2015-11-05-ND/ > > It worked pretty well - everyone was set up before the workshop officially > started. It had a couple of minor snags: > - osx-32 packages not available. Solution was to reinstall miniconda > osx-64 (not sure why student has osx-32 in the first place.) Not sure if > osx-32 packages are necessary long-term, may investigate how to build these. > - git was built without some options. Stash was missing, and it seemed > like https clone didn't work for people on OS X. I'll fix this soon. > - one student showed up a half-day late, without any setup. He had > Python 2.7 installed, but the workshop was done with Python 3.4. He was > lost because many commands weren't working for him. I don't think this is > really an issue with the installation process. > > Nano on windows worked fine. Python/Jupyter/Matplotlib also worked fine. > > I'll be fixing git the git build as I have time. Otherwise, this seems > like a nice way going forward. > > On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 9:36 AM Karin Lagesen <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I am testing out setting up for a shell, git, python workshop on a >> windows machine. I am following these guidelines here: >> >> http://software-carpentry.org/workshops/setup.html >> >> First, are these the latest up-to-date instructions? >> >> Second, do I need the Software Carpentry installer ( I think I do, just >> checking). >> >> Third, in that case, can somebody tell me where the binary for the >> installer is? The link just currently points back onto the page itself, >> and I couldn't detect a binary in the git repo. >> >> Thanks! >> >> Karin >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> >> http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org >> >
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