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Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 12:52:23 +1000
Subject: Re: Is it possible to install Python on a network?
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On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 12:48 PM, Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> w=
rote:
> Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 12:35 PM, Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au=
> wrote:
>> > What do you imaging a user doing, exactly, on machine =E2=80=98foo=E2=
=80=99 to make
>> > a program execute on machine =E2=80=98bar=E2=80=99? At what step =E2=
=80=93 exactly how =E2=80=93
>> > does the communication between the machines occur to invoke the
>> > program? How is the user's input, and the program's output,
>> > communicated in a way that machine =E2=80=98foo=E2=80=99 knows to inte=
ract with
>> > machine =E2=80=98bar=E2=80=99?
>>
>> Network mounts work fine for this kind of thing.
>
> I'd rather not propose a solution until we know better what the problem
> is; what =E2=80=9Croys2005=E2=80=9D expects the behaviour to be. So the q=
uestions above
> need, IMO, answers from =E2=80=9Croys2005=E2=80=9D.

Fair enough. Since he was talking earlier about upgrades, though, I
figured he was talking about having a single source of code, only one
place to update, and then initiate programs on the individual
computers. But yeah, need the OP's responses.

ChrisA