Hi all, When creating binary releases for Sage in the future, could we please put out a release in the 'zip' format as well as '7z'?
The success rate of installing Sage in my algebraic geometry class is incredibly low. Today 2 students told me they couldn't get Sage working on their Windows machines so they gave up and used Maple instead. Both of them were stuck at trying to _decompress_ Sage. They had no idea what 7zip was and asked why we use 7zip, instead of WinZip, which everyone knows and for which Windows has support built-in. I told them about how the compression ratio is better for 7zip. Their comment was "it's already such a big download anyways, what's the difference?" I think using zip instead of 7z removes one of the many hoops users have to jump through to get Sage working on their Windows box. Cheers, Yi --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
