I think it is a good idea to put out the Docker containers for download - as many people will find it useful. Is there a way to build them automatically? Certainly for 0.3, we can just upload what we have built for JuliaBox to the downloads page.
-viral On Monday, March 9, 2015 at 7:23:26 AM UTC+5:30, Pavel wrote: > > DeclarativePackages.jl seems helpful, thanks. Will also try the > dockerfiles from your other answer > <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/julia-users/irs__O3UGtI>. > > On Sunday, March 8, 2015 at 6:36:09 PM UTC-7, Tony Kelman wrote: >> >> I don't think anyone has figured out the right way to do default packages >> yet, especially not private packages. Juno does some I think, and JuliaBox >> does a pretty big set. >> >> You could try using https://github.com/rened/DeclarativePackages.jl >> maybe? >> >> >> On Sunday, March 8, 2015 at 6:23:40 PM UTC-7, Pavel wrote: >> >>> I see now, thanks for clarifying. The next thought I had was to >>> customize this tarball with additional packages (which live in private >>> repos, no ssh keys on production server si git won't help) and include >>> those in* /etc/julia/juliarc.jl* . Then repack the custom version and >>> upload to GCloud. Does that sound like a reasonable workflow? What would be >>> a good place for custom Julia packages within the tarball's directory >>> structure? >>> >>> On Sunday, March 8, 2015 at 6:03:01 PM UTC-7, Tony Kelman wrote: >>>> >>>> The tarball that those instructions will download and extract has all >>>> the library dependencies included in it. Should just work (tm), whether or >>>> not you're using Docker. I think you'll need to manually install git for >>>> the package manager to work, that part will be distribution-dependent. >>>> We'll eventually get rid of that requirement too, "just" needs somebody to >>>> rewrite almost the entire package manager. >>>> >>>> >>>> On Sunday, March 8, 2015 at 5:53:54 PM UTC-7, Pavel wrote: >>>> >>>>> I do want a stable v0.3 binary, but what about all the >>>>> libraries/dependencies? My understanding is that there are quite a bit of >>>>> those judging by the list of packages in Ubuntu repository on my >>>>> development machine... Thought docker can create a bundle with everything >>>>> needed, including custom Julia packages, and the whole thing becomes >>>>> ready >>>>> to use n GCloud (wishful thinking here?). >>>>> >>>>> On Sunday, March 8, 2015 at 5:17:56 PM UTC-7, Tony Kelman wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Do you want to build Julia from source, or just run a binary? If you >>>>>> just want to run a binary, do the following: >>>>>> >>>>>> mkdir -p ~/julia >>>>>> curl -s -L https://status.julialang.org/stable/linux-x86_64 | \ >>>>>> tar -C ~/julia -x -z --strip-components=1 -f - >>>>>> export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/julia/bin" >>>>>> >>>>>> This is what we run on Travis-CI when you set `language: julia`. It >>>>>> should work on pretty much any 64-bit Linux distribution. Replace >>>>>> "stable" >>>>>> with "download" if you want to use an 0.4-dev nightly, though unless >>>>>> you're >>>>>> developing Julia itself (in which case you probably want a from-source >>>>>> build) or absolutely need to use some 0.4-only feature, this is not >>>>>> recommended for regular use right now. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Sunday, March 8, 2015 at 3:09:57 PM UTC-7, Pavel wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> While there is already a package that helps running Julia on Amazon >>>>>>> EC2, Google Cloud does not seem to be widely used by the community. I >>>>>>> did >>>>>>> notice however that a fairly impressive JuliaBox >>>>>>> <https://github.com/JuliaLang/JuliaBox> system has some docker >>>>>>> components in it along with the nginx server etc. I'm yet to get >>>>>>> familiar >>>>>>> with docker but it my assumption is that the docker-component should >>>>>>> not be >>>>>>> restricted to AWS and could be used on GCloud as well. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Has anyone tried using docker-component of JuliaBox with GCloud? Is >>>>>>> this component coded for a specific Linux flavor? I am interested in >>>>>>> having >>>>>>> just a Julia runtime environment on GCloud Compute without the part of >>>>>>> JuliaBox that allows to connect from a browser, edit code in it etc. >>>>>>> Any >>>>>>> pointers would be helpful for (hopefully not too complex) setup of >>>>>>> Julia >>>>>>> docker container on GCloud virtual machines. >>>>>>> >>>>>>>
