< I don't really wee why it could not be user-friendly, can you elaborate on this?
I think cygwin is a lot slower than virtualisation - or has this changed? Am Montag, 4. April 2016 14:38:41 UTC+2 schrieb Sebastien Gouezel: > > > > Le lundi 4 avril 2016 11:48:34 UTC+2, Erik Bray a écrit : >> >> >> Yes, I think this approach is mainly useful for newcomers. The >> majority of the problems you mentioned came in due to already having >> various bits of this installed. I'm not quite sure I understand the > > point about latex. >> > > I mean that sagemath in a VM will not interact well with other normal > programs on my computer. Say I have mathematica or maple, will sagemath in > VM be able to call them? > > >> I'm -1 on Cygwin for a few reasons, but am working on building Sage >> natively for Windows without a posix-compatibility layer. (Though I'm >> not opposed to supporting Cygwin too of course but I don't think it's >> the most user-friendly approach in the long term). >> > > I don't really wee why it could not be user-friendly, can you elaborate on > this? Note that there are cygwin programs that come with an all-in-one > installer just as what you did for sagemath in VM, installing the bits of > cygwin they need -- the user just has to click on OK once or twice, and > then everything is working in a completely transparent way. Check out for > instance Isabelle/HOL at https://isabelle.in.tum.de/ > > Of course, a native windows build would be even better, but that seems to > be an order of magnitude more difficult since many programs in > sage-the-distribution use the posix layer (PARI, for instance) > > >> For an "average" user I think this installer is much friendlier than >> any other currently working approach. >> > > I agree completely. > > Sebastien > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
