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No Binder demo?

Open psychemedia opened this issue 4 years ago • 2 comments

Hi

I note there is no MyBinder button in the README, and when I try to run the repo using MyBinder, the kernel fails to start properly.

Is there any particular reason why the kernel seems to struggle on MyBinder?

psychemedia avatar Jun 29 '20 07:06 psychemedia

It should be possible to use this kernel in a binder after installing scilab in a postBuild script. If you'd like to take a crack at setting it up I'd gladly accept a PR adding a binder badge to this repo.

blink1073 avatar Jun 29 '20 10:06 blink1073

I had a quick look installing from conda but that throws an error if I try to run scilab which is all over bugzilla with no immediately obvious FAQ solution:

Scilab startup function detected that the function proposed to the engine is the wrong one. Usually, it comes from a linker problem in your distribution/OS. Here, Scilab should have 'libscijvm' defined but gets 'libscijvm-disable' instead.

I'll take a look at a manual Binder install when I get a chance (I was just trying to do a quick demo for someone else to show them they could run Octave or Scilab kernels from a Jupyter context; I'm not really a user of either...)

psychemedia avatar Jun 29 '20 16:06 psychemedia