You can do this locally? I tried using JuliaBox in my classes last
year, but it was a bit of disaster, as it was unreliable.
> On 16 Nov 2015, at 7:53 PM, Sisyphuss <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Run a JuliaBox server?
>
> On Monday, November 16, 2015 at 9:05:38 AM UTC+1, Sheehan Olver wrote:
> Another requirement is that the packages are shared across users, to save
> disk space. Gadfly + PyPlot + IJulia (with Conda.jl version of Jupyter)
> takes over 750MB. Does .julia need to be writable? If not, I guess both
> options are still possible.
>
> On Monday, November 16, 2015 at 2:05:45 PM UTC+11, Sheehan Olver wrote:
>
> I'm trying to figure out the "best" way to create a stable version of Julia +
> Gadfly + PyPlot + IJulia (+ other packages?) for a semester long course. I
> don't want to have the students run Pkg.add(...)/Pkg.update(), as packages
> have a tendency to occasionally break on updates, and it's a headache dealing
> with this during the lecture.
>
> Two possible solutions I can think of of are:
>
> 1) Prebake a .julia folder that contains all the necessary resources, with a
> script to reset in case the students break it with Pkg.update().
> 2) Use system image
>
> http://docs.julialang.org/en/release-0.4/devdocs/sysimg/
> <http://docs.julialang.org/en/release-0.4/devdocs/sysimg/>
>
> that includes all the necessary packages. It's not really clear how to do
> this from the documentation, though. I'm also not sure how that would
> interact with Pkg.update() though, so probably instructions to delete .julia
> would also need to be given.
>
>
> Any other options I'm missing? If 2 is recommended, any tutorial how to do
> this?
