> Interestingly, his only significant complaint about Sage is that it > isn't easy to use as a Windows user. Which is a totally valid > complaint given the state of using Sage on Windows right now, but that > was the main obstruction. > > - Robert
Concerning an easy windows version: I recently did some work with a colinux/andLinux/windows install. I got it to work, the missing step would be to package it to an exe installer. However due to other commitments I couldn't invest the time to do the necessary investigations to finish this, I am also unsure how long this would take, maybe just some days, but if you want to give it some polish then I would rather estimate 2 weeks. I also missed the last motivation to invest that time because they are to weak points: a) this is just working for 32-bit windows b) In the end there is a performance hit of maybe 15%-20% compared to the vm solution (refering to google, speed is similar to Cygwin). the positive is, there is a console and you can do developement, like in native ubuntu, no real adaptions of the present source code are needed. I liked the desktop integration with windows, though it is not perfect. An informal report with some screenshots and detailed benchmarking is here http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/emil/doc/SageWin/Sage_on_andLinux.html Thinking twice about it it might be worthwile to offer this andLinus package, but even better would be to have a preset vm-image, usable for servers on typical windows school networks so that it could handle typical numbers of users. I don't know if this is technically possible though, I just have limited experience with building sage vm- machines. A good thing would be to fix the documentation regarding virtualbox/ vmplayer - I guess this is confusing and may be a major annoyance if you have no previous experience with virtualisation. kind regards emil -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
