On Apr 20, 10:20 am, RegB <2regburg...@earthlink.net> wrote: > Perhaps even farther off topic; > I doubt that Cygwin (Cygwin/X) is in any case a good path for many/ > most MS_Windows > folk - from THEIR point of view. > The path to getting Cygwin/X up and running "usefully" on a MS_Windows > platform > is long and arduous for the naive user, e.g. it was so for me. > > Oracle (Sun) VM_VirtualBox installs as a MS_Windows program. > It is "culturally compatible" with everything the user is used to. > The learning curve to then install a standard Linux distro, e.g. > Ubuntu or Debian, then Sage within that is quite trivial. > VMware is another possibility, although I think that isn't "free". > > For Sage to be adopted WIDELY by windows users the path > to getting it up and running needs to be simple and reasonably quick. > Cygwin /X does not (yet) offer that.
My understanding is that the previous Cygwin-cum-Sage behavior was that you downloaded one installer, and that this then would essentially be a double-click to the Sage command line. At any rate, it is intended to be packaged as one file to download, which is then opened - not a multi-step process, which is just how one needs to do it now because it doesn't work fully yet without some massaging which is in various tickets. - kcrisman -- 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
