[SciPy-User] Central File Exchange for Scipy

[Jason Grout]

On 4/18/11 11:54 PM, Joshua Holbrook wrote:

>
> Yeah, it sounds like you're doing something really similar, though
> with a Sage focus. How well do these Sage interacts things work with
> more vanilla python? I for one don't really use Sage, so if it was
> ridiculously different I don't know how much utility the SagExchange
> would be for me.

The site would be simply a snippet site, geared towards python. 
Additionally, for each snippet, it would be able to send the snippet to 
a server to execute the snippet and display the results, like the 
htmlnotebook project in the IPython trunk.  Except we'd probably also 
use another project we're currently working on, a "single-cell Sage 
Notebook server": https://github.com/jasongrout/simple-python-db-compute 
(see http://wiki.sagemath.org/DrakeSageGroup for rough notes of our 
progress and todo list).  The "interacts" part just is some client-side 
javascript that makes sliders, textboxes, etc.

In a sense, the Sage interact site would be like a combination of Gist, 
Wolfram Demonstrations, Pastebin, Central File Exchange, etc.  For your 
purposes, you could ignore the "interact" part and just think of it as a 
version-controlled snippet site that also lets you execute the snippets 
on a remote server.



>
>> To prevent license discussions from eating up too much energy/time, I
>> have decided that the site that I set up will have all snippets be
>> (modified) BSD licensed.
>
> Word. I approve. I hope good things come of this. I'm mostly working
> with javascript these days, but if I have time I might take a look or
> two.

We could definitely use some Javascript expertise, especially when we 
start working on integrating the single-cell server mentioned above with 
the snippet site.

Thanks,

Jason