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Calysto / scilab_kernel

A Scilab Kernel for IPython
MIT License
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No Binder demo? #20

Open psychemedia opened 4 years ago

psychemedia commented 4 years ago

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?

blink1073 commented 4 years ago

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.

psychemedia commented 4 years ago

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...)