On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Volker Braun <vbraun.n...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sunday, February 5, 2012 2:59:40 AM UTC-8, Emil Widmann wrote: >> >> About those other parts: Really, the Interface from the windows side >> has a lot of potential. All this stuff typical windows users expect >> when installing new software like desktop icons, menu entries, >> installer, on screen help / documentation Pop-ups... boring stuff like >> that. The base could and should be the current VM for now (or >> eventually your last beta with X). > > > I was recently thinking about our options for a Sage launcher program This > would be a relatively small program that controls VirtualBox, hiding the > normal VirtualBox gui. This is pretty easy using the VBoxManage utility. The > Sage launcher program could then > * download new Virtual Machines if necessary > * let the user choose between different versions of the Sage VM > * diagnose port / firewall issues > * automatically export notebooks from the VM using a bundled ssh client > * write the launcher in Python (which we also include) using some Python > GUI toolkit (included, too) >
Big +1. I'm curious if anybody else has ever written such a program for another project? If anybody out there is particularly good at searching for such things, could you look? It's not inconceivable there's something out there we can learn from. -- william > > -- > 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 -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.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
