On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 6:53 PM, kcrisman <kcris...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is great.  I would add that you are right that 32-bit on Cygwin is
> probably never going to be stable - I spent countless hours rebasing while
> attempting to help with that.

Yup. You can't just blindly rebaseall and hope it works.  In fact
rebase had a bug in it (only fixed a few weeks ago) that would cause
it to get very confused and do some bad things if runs out of address
spaces--I think there was an int overflow bug.

> The only thing I would add is that you may want to add something brief on
> exactly how people use the filesystem with the installer (e.g. where to save
> Jupyter notebooks or images); it is one of the most common questions we get
> on ask.sagemath regarding Windows with the Linux VM.  (It may not be
> appropriate for this post, but adding info to an easily accessible how-to
> manual on how to get stuff off a VM into a normal filesystem would be great
> too.)

Ah, thanks for the reminder. I actually did mean to make a note about
this, and about how Cygwin handles paths.

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