On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Minh Nguyen <nguyenmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi William, > > On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 6:18 AM, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> If you want to run the Sage notebook on a remote machine where Sage is >> installed, and you can only ssh to the remote machine, but not open >> outside ports, do: >> >> ssh -L 5900:localhost:8000 remote.computer.edu /path/to/sage -notebook >> port=8000 >> >> Then open >> >> http://localhost:5900 >> >> on your computer. > > This tip should be fleshed out and included somewhere in the release > management wiki page at > > http://wiki.sagemath.org/release > > I feel ashamed to admit that I'm not able to do this fleshing out work > as I hardly use the notebook.
I've put this on the todo list for adding to the output of "sage: notebook?". I think it also belongs there. But you raise a very good point that adding this to the release management page will make it easy for people to use. What about the tip needs to be fleshed out? > Before releasing a stable version of Sage, a release manager needs to > ensure that Sage compiles (on the various supported platforms) and > also that Sage starts from the command line. Equally important is that > one needs to ensure that the Sage notebook also can be loaded. Better would be automated testing of the notebook using Selenium or something, so "make test" would verify that the notebook server works. > The > Internet provides a dirt cheap communication medium for open source > projects. However, downloading a 200 MB tarball to one's local > computer for each pre-release can quickly eats into one's monthly > Internet quota. I have no problem with upgrading. But I don't want to > rule out the possibility that someone would download the full source > tarball and compile it. If you're using sage.math to run Sage, then you don't have to use an ssh tunnel. Just do: sage: notebook(address='sage.math.washington.edu', secure=True) and you're good to go. That's it. William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
