[4022] in Software_Announce
Julia updates on Athena
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Mon Feb 3 14:37:10 2014
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
To: software-announce@mit.edu
Cc: cfyi@mit.edu, alexp@mit.edu, "Steven G. Johnson" <stevenj.mit@gmail.com>,
Homer Reid <homereid@mit.edu>, Alan Edelman <edelman@math.MIT.EDU>,
Jeff Bezanson <jeff.bezanson@gmail.com>,
Stefan Karpinski <stefan.karpinski@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 14:36:56 -0500
I've finished rearranging the Julia lockers on Athena to make 0.2.0
stable be the default version while keeping 0.3.0 prerelease available
for those who want it.
I'm also planning to shut off the julia_v0.2 locker which had previously
been used for teaching (containing a 0.2 prerelease) to reduce clutter
and avoid confusion. Note that the stable 0.2.0 version is in the
julia_v0.2.0 locker.
>From my message to users:
On the advice of teaching faculty, we've installed 0.2.0 stable and made
it the default. The recently announced 0.3.0 prerelease is still
available, but the launch commands have changed. As of now,
to run 0.2.0 stable:
add julia
julia (command-line version)
ijulia (ipython GUI version) *
to run 0.3.0 prerelease:
add julia
julia -ver 0.3.0pre (command-line version)
ijulia -ver 0.3.0pre (GUI version) **
* see http://web.mit.edu/julia_v0.2.0/README.athena for initial setup
** see http://web.mit.edu/julia_v0.3.0pre/README.athena for initial
setup
Julia is configured so that add-on packages are installed in ~/.julia in
your home directory. Please see
http://web.mit.edu/julia_v0.2.0/README.athena
for important additional information.
Alex
