On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 9:50 PM, Volker Braun <vbraun.n...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
I think that this is the whole point no matter what approach we take; the user shouldn't have to interact with the Sage's container environment at all--whether that be Cygwin or a virtual machine or a co-linux like solution or whatever. The question then becomes what of these platforms is it easiest to distribute Sage in (install, startup, and get Sage working at all). > 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? Interestingly, some libraries and computations actually run faster in a virtualized linux environment than natively on Windows. > 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 > -- 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
