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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 4:18 PM Subject: Re: use zip instead of 7zip for distributing the sage binary To: Yi Qiang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 1:57 PM, Yi Qiang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. +1 I very strongly agree with this. I've completely *replaced* the 7z file with a zip file, updated the readme, etc. -- William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
