Hi folks, off the cuff, probably totally dumb. Reading some of the threads about Sage, Julia, Windows, etc, got me thinking... If/when there's a Sage kernel for the IPython/Jupyter notebook, I wonder if that could give you guys a way to move forward on Windows, where I know you've fought pretty hard and bitter battles...
My idea (assuming the aforementioned kernel): package *just* the Sage kernel inside a VM, and run it purely as a service, but connect to it from an IPython terminal, Qt console or Notebook running from a native Anaconda installation. Because our execution model decouples the kernel from the filesystem, the user gets their 'normal' environment, files, etc, and they don't really need to know anything about the VM to get to their work, their directories, etc. I know IPython provides a very different execution model to the Sage NB (no hidden directories, it lives on the normal filesystem, etc), so 'native' Sage notebooks won't work. But ipynbs will work fine, and this may at least give you guys a better way to reach a Windows audience... And since this VM would be running only the bare kernels, it can be a very small and lightweight one, and it should be a lot easier to deal with ports and firewall issues. There will be zeromq traffic on some sockets, but that's it. Just an idea... Cheers, f -- Fernando Perez (@fperez_org; http://fperez.org) fperez.net-at-gmail: mailing lists only (I ignore this when swamped!) fernando.perez-at-berkeley: contact me here for any direct mail -- 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 http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
