If you are fine with using a virtual machine then just punch the notebook port through. The only thing running native would be the browser rendering the worksheet. Of course you need admin rights to install a virtual machine, and there can be only one hypervisor on the system. So you'll never have a one-click app.
With Cygwin, a one-click Sage installer could just drop a sufficient minimal install and then add Sage on top. The official python docs specifically mention cygwin so it can't be that hard to build nowadays. I don't see the point of going beyond this stage. Yes, with huge effort one could port everything to Win32 instead of posix. For what, to run 10% faster on somebody's gaming system? While running slower everywhere else because we have to remove fork()? Windows has essentially no market share in high performance computing. Or, for that matter, anywhere outside of the desktop. Having students work on a Win32 port is not in the interest of their education unless they have their mind already set on a job in Redmont. -- 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
