On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 11:03 PM, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Nearly two weeks ago I had the notebook stabilized and all known new
> bugs fixed (after separating it off from sage as a separate program
> and rewriting the expect stuff). But I realized that it would be a
> total nightmare to introduce yet another sobj ("sage object") storage
> format, which would make refactoring code extremely painful, and just
> have to be changed again. So, I created an "abstract storage layer"
> and implemented an storage system for *everything* in the Sage
> notebook which doesn't use any special Sage-related pickles. Some
> data is stored as pickled basic Python objects that can be read from
> any version of Python with or without Sage installed, but that is it.
> Rewriting the notebook to use an abstract storage layer is the sort
> of thing that at first seems like it will take a day, but then takes
> more than a week. Anyway, I did it. However, it's hard to imagine
> that I didn't introduce numerous new bugs in the process, though I do
> not know of any bugs at all.
>
> So, I did an automatic migration of http://demo.sagenb.org to the new
> notebook and put that at http://uw.sagenb.org/. I hope people will
> test http://uw.sagenb.org/! Please try it. Report any bugs at all
> that you find. Note that I've changed the icon in the upper left
> corner to a new "sage notebook" icon that Harald Schilly designed, and
> there are a few other small tweaks interface tweaks that people have
> requested.
I have also just updated the sagenb in femhub and we'll work with
Mateusz on the login free feature, that we need quite urgently.
We'll send patches if we get something done. Is there some webpage of
sagenb? So that I can refer to the page when I am talking about sagenb
to people that are not yet familiar with it.
Ondrej
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