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Re: Julia on Athena updated to 0.3.0 prerelease
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven G. Johnson)
Thu Jan 30 15:22:02 2014
From: "Steven G. Johnson" <stevenj.mit@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1391104512.26331.12.camel@dit>
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 15:21:46 -0500
Cc: software-announce@mit.edu, cfyi@mit.edu, Homer Reid <homereid@mit.edu>,
Alan Edelman <edelman@math.MIT.EDU>,
Stefan Karpinski <stefan.karpinski@gmail.com>,
Jeff Bezanson <jeff.bezanson@gmail.com>
To: Alex T Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>
Alex,
Thanks for working on this! I think it would be best if we stuck with =
the 0.2 release for classes. Can you install the 0.2 release (not =
prerelease)?
Dealing with prerelease software last term was difficult, because people =
ran into different problems depending on when they downloaded the code. =
0.2 is fairly solid, works with IJulia and PyPlot, and doesn't have any =
glaring deficiencies that I know of.
Homer, binary installation of 0.2 on both Mac and Windows should also =
now be pretty smooth: install Anaconda Python, install Julia, run =
Pkg.add("IJulia"); Pkg.add("PyPlot"), and then it works (run "ipython =
notebook --profile julia" and it opens in the browser, "using PyPlot" =
works to do "plot", etcetera). I just tried it yesterday on fresh =
Windows 8 and MacOS 10.9 machines.
Steven
On Jan 30, 2014, at 12:55 PM, Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU> wrote:
> I've updated the Julia mathematical programming language on Athena to
> the latest 0.3.0 prerelease. To run it:
>=20
> add julia
> julia (command-line)
>=20
> or add julia
> ijulia (GUI; but see instructions for first-time setup)
>=20
>> =46rom my message to users:
>=20
> Julia on Athena has been updated to the current git release as of
> 1/27/14: 0.3.0-prerelease+1268. To run the prior 0.2.0 prerelease now:
>=20
> add julia
> julia -ver 0.2.0-pre
>=20
> A pdf manual is at http://web.mit.edu/julia_v0.3.0pre/julia.pdf
> A local doc page is at
> http://web.mit.edu/julia_v0.3.0pre/www/index.html
> For an extensive man page type "man julialanguage"
>=20
> Julia is configured so that add-on packages are installed in ~/.julia =
in
> your home directory. Please see
>=20
> http://web.mit.edu/julia_v0.3.0pre/README.athena=20
>=20
> for important additional information.
>=20
> A new ijulia command is available to launch the ipython Julia GUI
> directly after doing initial setup; see README.athena for details.
>=20
>=20
