Very good idea :) Late for me because I don't want to use w10 anymore but maybe I can find a computer on my stock ! lol I really want to try and see that ! Excellent job, Henri Le mercredi 23 mars 2016 12:15:58 UTC+1, Erik Bray a écrit : > > Hi all, > > I've been working for a few weeks on an installer for Sage on Windows, > which takes advantage of Docker to accomplish this.* The goal of this > project is to make it possible to run Sage on Windows with as much > transparency as possible, such that the user isn't really aware that > there is any virtualization involved. As you can read in my report > for the OpenDreamKit project on Docker containers [1] there are limits > to this. > > However, in the ideal case a user simply downloads and runs an > executable--clicks through a graphical install wizard, and then gets a > desktop icon which launches a Jupyter notebook (with sage and terminal > support) in their default web browser. Although there are still a few > rough edges [2] the alpha version of the Sage for Windows installer > that I have for you today does just that: > > > https://github.com/embray/sage-windows/releases/download/v1a1/SageMath-7.0-1a1-fat.exe > > > My hope is for this to eventually be adopted into the SageMath project > as the "official" distribution for Windows, replacing the existing > VM-based solution as I believe that this gives an overall > lighter-weight and more transparently "native" user experience. In > the future the same approach could also be adopted--I think--to > provide a "local" installation of SMC. > > Now, if anyone with access to a Windows machine (Windows 7 or newer), > it would be a big favor if I could get a few testers to bang this > around a bit and see what breaks and what works and what could be > improved. > > To be clear, right now it only supports running the notebook, though > I'm also working on making it possible to run `sage` at a Windows > command prompt (almost working). Also be aware if you try to test > this: The biggest limitation for now (as described also in [1]) is > that for Docker on Windows hardware virtualization support is required > to be enabled. If this is not enabled the most likely outcome is that > the installer will fail with an error message like "Could not start > Docker VM". In this case you will have to grub around in your BIOS > settings to find hardware assisted virtualization support--this of > course is going to be the most difficult aspect of making this > available to "average" users. A workaround may be possible but I'm > not sure yet. > > Be aware also that the installer can take a few minutes to run (as > much as 5 minutes even on a reasonably fast machine) mostly due to it > being highly compressed. > > Anyways, I look forward to your questions and feedback! > > Thanks, > Erik > > > * I'm aware of the irony that I only just recently chided someone on > this list for appearing dismissive of working on native Windows > support for sage, while at the same time promoting a VM based solution > for Windows :) Nonetheless I intend this only to be a temporary > solution, albeit a nicer solution than currently exists for Windows. > > [1] > https://github.com/OpenDreamKit/OpenDreamKit/wiki/D3.1-Virtual-images-and-containers#sagemath > > [2] https://github.com/embray/sage-windows/issues >
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