What do you think it is worthy to make script or client-side apps that: download FRESH Atom and Julia installations set it up and update download and set up fresh version of the juno environment make the whole installation bundle portable… At the first glance, it may be useful for beginners and u…

NO!!! the JuliaPro bundle de facto is still unstable, unportable, very rare updated. Its components are outdated, and yet it looks like the refreshing of the some components (like the Atom editor) are intentionally blocked within. I tried to install it on 4 comps… and just in the 2 cases it worked…

I think this is a great idea. And have it rebuild the system image for Julia as well. I would be a big fan of this.

From what I understood it was previously a bit complicated because of the way Julia managed the packages (storing them in a remote place rather than close to its installation folder). Maybe this will change with v1.0? But indeed, this would be a very very useful thing.

No It is not too complicated. But you must do it manually ( of course if you want to be updated), and do it often enough for some reasons. It’s nothing more but a bit irritating when you use Julia solely for your own…and it is hardly appropriate for a classroom with 20 workstations used by unexper…

Have you thought about a docker based solution for this?

Sorry , but it is not matter of the way of deployment it much more due to atom’s, julia’s and juno’s instability. So the basic idea behind was to assemble of most fresh versions of atom, juno, julia on the enduser’s computer. At some cases it would be quite appropriate…The reason for it - most prod…

The promise of using a docker solution for a users computer is that you can control a tight image, preinstall packages, precompile them, get jupyter and dependencies up and running, etc. And if you want to update that image, docker can handle that well to get the latest and greatest. Since jupyter …

I second @jlperla ’s suggestion, if not for Docker (which is what I would use, too) then a thin client using whatever your IT prefers. You maintain a single image, users get it on demand, log in to some network drive with their home directory… this is a robust setup. [image] DIzer: used by unexp…

[image] Tamas_Papp: Then perhaps also consider Jupyter, which is really just a service, nothing to install Yes, for sure. The local docker based solution is if you really need users to have local stuff running, but depending on the type of class, that is often unnecessary. Ask your university…

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