An anecdote: I have been unable to get 95% of my students to install sage on their own machines; in at least two cases they got hung up on 7zip and came to me for help. Probably several more got stuck and didn't come for help. (To be fair: I haven't tried that hard to push personal installs, since I supply three powerful servers for a class of 12 people, and its easier to collaborate on the servers.)
A link to 7zip.org right by the archive or in the install instructions would help. Its funny, I often listen to faculty who are not great with computers marvel at the skills of the "net" generation (or whatever "buzzword" generation), but I'm not convinced that computer literacy of any depth as increased at all since my generation (I'm in my mid-thirties) and if anything I think it might have gone down as people get more and more removed from the underpinnings. -M. Hampton On Apr 10, 5:24 am, Harald Schilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Apr 10, 4:29 am, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > dortmund.de> wrote: > > It is *341* MB vs. *601* MB, > > that's really huge. > > > Well, I prefer not to use self extracting executables either,... > > Well, I don't see a problem in using a self extracting 7z archive. A > note on the download site with short instructions and a link to > 7zip.org should help everybody. It's really bad to have users unable > to handle compressed archives, because they will have problems with > the vmware system, too. Therefore we need to include good instructions > on the website. > (I'll try to cover these issues in my current design for the next > website) > > h --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
