I have created a pretty large number of worksheets over the last year for courses in pattern recognition and image processing.
Unfortunately, I keep having problems with sage versioning. For example, I had renamed worksheets to have a more consistent naming structure, but many of the new names actually have reverted suddenly. Within individual worksheets, I find that sometimes there are remnants of output left from previous expressions that have been deleted. I've also had problems with the notebook seemingly "getting out of sync" and text randomly appearing or disappearing occasionally. This is with up-to-date versions of Sage running on the latest Ubuntu 9.10, and recent versions of Firefox. I'm kind of losing trust in the Sage notebook and the Sage server. It seems like my notebooks are always at risk. I've dealt with buggy software before, but what's so frustrating about Sage is that there is nothing I can really do to back things up or version them. Even downloading all the notebooks as a zip file fails with some frequency and takes forever even if it works, and now I can't even upload the manual backups I created. Is there any light at the end of the tunnel? Are there any new facilities on the horizon for versioning and copying notebooks? One thing that would help a great deal is if notebooks were actually stored in a Mercurial repository and versioned using Mercurial. That way, I could pull/backup copies directly, synchronize Sage installations, and have a much more reliable record of the history of the collection of notebooks. Tom -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
