On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 9:17 AM, mabshoff <mabsh...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > > On Jan 6, 9:08 am, Jason Grout <jason-s...@creativetrax.com> wrote: >> mabshoff wrote: > > <SNIP> > >> > Thoughts? >> >> I like this idea. One of things that is very attractive about Sage is >> that I can release a paper with code that runs on a specific version of >> Sage and people will have access to that version to run that code. >> >> For that reason, but it would also be nice if there were online >> notebooks for every version of Sage. This might not be feasible, but it >> would be nice to tell someone that we tested this code on Sage 3.2.1 >> and people could easily access that version of Sage online and run the code. > > Well, the notebook is quite security sensitive, so unless we can > somehow run the current notebook interface with an arbitrary Sage > process, i.e. sage-x.y.z, I don't see this happening.
One could easily do that, because the "link" between the notebook interface and the actual sage process is just pexpect and the filesystem. It would be quite easy technically to run sage-x.y.z instead of just sage. Good idea. > And even then > there is still security issues, like older Python releases. Maybe we > can do a VMWare machine for older releases and bunch all sage-x.z.z > releases for all z together so that if someone really wants to run > Sage 2.10.2 he/she could get the Sage 2.10.x vmware image. > > Thoughts? In light of the fact that we now seem to have nearly infinite disk space (thanks NSF!!), and sagenb.org is a vmware image, and because of my remark above, I think it would be completely feasible to have like 10-20 versions of sage at least available from sagenb.org. This would be just the underlying sage process, not the notebook interface. I'm not saying I'm going to do this, just that I think it is technically feasible and is not an increased security risk at all. William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
