Re: [julia-dev] Window USB Build - possible?

[Jameson Nash]

Julia does not install any system dependancies outside of its directory, so this is definitely possible. Starting the web repl with a simple batch script shouldn't be too challenging either. We are hoping to upload a new windows binary very soon for people to play with.
-Jameson

On Jul 31, 2012, at 10:51 AM, Mike B wrote:

> Hi I'm Mike. I'm a long time, almost exclusively, Matlab programmer, so noob not dev. I like the project and would like to contribute but really, from my reading of this list, I'm probably only good for documentation ... and questions. Like this one:
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> Could Julia be built to run from a USB drive for Windows systems?
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> I've been looking for a number crunching platform on a USB; bring the stick to the machines (XP/Win7), collect data, and do some basic data analysis to make sure data quality is good. I've looked at Portable Python and Processing, but switched to trying to do it all in javascript so I could use a browser as the UI (Server2go or node.js on USB drive allowed decent functionality except that file I/O is a challenge.) That all went okay ... sort of. Then I saw the Julia web REPL. So I wondered, could you achieve something similar to the Julia web REPL but all running off a USB drive ... Portable Julia?
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[Stefan Karpinski]

We do try to follow the OS X "an application is a directory" model as much as possible, although Linux distros certainly fight us tooth and nail on that design.

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[Brendan]

I realize this isn't what you were discussing, but I run Centos on vmware.  It fits on a USB drive (a larger one...), and can share out a directory on a Windows box.  While not a cool as just having it on the thumb drive, it works for me now.  And, it is simple to set up.  I am really into simple...  :)