We are actually removing Cygwin support in Sage, so yes, going forward it will
be WSL only.
On 3 December 2023 14:21:13 GMT, Sean Fitzpatrick <dsfitzpatr...@gmail.com>
wrote:
>Thanks David.
>
>It sounds like that will require some changes in PreTeXt itself.
>
>I was experimenting because I got a new Windows computer at work, to know
>how well PreTeXt is currently supported on Windows.
>
>I think the answer might be that everything works locally, as long as your
>book doesn't have Sage graphics.
>If it does, PreTeXt needs to be installed inside WSL rather than locally.
>Then one can follow instructions to connect vscode with the WSL.
>
>I had also tried using the older 9.3 Windows installer, but I couldn't get
>that to work either, and if Sage will be WSL only moving forward, it is
>probably not worth the effort to figure it out.
>
>On Sun, Dec 3, 2023, 12:58 a.m. David Ayotte <davidayott...@gmail.com>
>wrote:
>
>> If you have Python script running locally on Windows, you could call the
>> sage script by doing something like:
>>
>> import os
>> os.system('wsl sage your-sage-script.sage')
>>
>> See this page:
>>
>> https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/filesystems
>>
>> for more about Windows-Linux interoperability.
>>
>> David A.
>>
>>
>> Le samedi 2 décembre 2023 à 18:30:05 UTC-5, Sean Fitzpatrick a écrit :
>>
>>> I am wondering if anyone has experience installing Sage on Windows via
>>> WSL, and calling Sage as an executable from another program that's
>>> installed locally on Windows.
>>>
>>> My particular use case is processing Sage plot images in a PreTeXt
>>> document.
>>>
>>> I could install everything for PreTeXt via WSL but I already have most
>>> things locally installed: LaTeX, Python, VScode, etc.
>>> Sage is the only missing piece.
>>>
>>> For a PreTeXt book with Sage graphics, there's a Python script that
>>> extracts the Sage code, sends it to the Sage exectuable, and saves the
>>> resulting image.
>>>
>>> I'm not sure how to have a Python script running locally on Windows call
>>> an executable in WSL.
>>>
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