I noticed that a portable Julia is now available for the Windows platform. I think this might lead to a Julia-on-a-stick, but a little bit more work is required, I think. I started putting together a bash script for this purpose. Any interest?

I will teach a course soon where the students will be provided with examples in the Julia programming language. In order to facilitate the procedure I will supply them with a bundle (zip file) that needs to be expanded (anywhere), and a script that the students double-click to install Julia, require…

Sorry for the ignorance but what a portable Julia consists of?

In my conception it would consist of the (i) Julia installation folder and the (ii) depot folder. Plus (iii) anything else I may wish to throw in (perhaps packages I work on, or packages I wish my students to have preinstalled). This is what it looks like at the moment (while I am working on it, so…

In case this applies to your situation: I use the git bash. Here is my bash script to set up the portable Julia: # set -o errexit set -o nounset # Make sure we are in the folder in which the portable Julia is installed. MyPortableJulia=julia-1.5.0 if [ ! -d $(pwd)/$MyPortableJulia ] ; then ec…

A Windows batch file. This one starts (a portable) VS code executable after setting the depot path. @echo off rem This needs to be changed if you switch versions of Julia set MyPortableJulia=julia-1.5.0 rem Grab the folder where the portable Julia installation lives set MyPortableJuliaDir=%~d0%~p0…

Sorry, the Windows batch file doesn’t work at the moment: VS code error Edit: I abandoned the batch file. I can get the job done with a bash script: much nicer to program. And it can be operated with the same double-click as a batch.

An update has been posted: http://hogwarts.ucsd.edu/~pkrysl/shared/Portable_Julia-1.6.zip Julia 1.6 release candidate 1 is used. The newest VS code. The user’s system does not need to have Git installed: the portable version of it is included. All the user needs to do is to double-click a batch fil…

Thanks to @musm for making the Windows portable installer! -viral

One more update: users not raised on *nix systems sometimes insist on having spaces in their usernames, despite advice to the contrary. My script was broken as it did not handle that case properly. I updated the script so that user names with spaces in them do not cause any trouble.

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fredrikekre August 21, 2020, 10:59pm 4

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