Re: [sage-devel] Sage on Bash on Ubuntu on Windows

2016-07-26 Thread Erik Bray
On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 4:25 PM, Vincent Delecroix <20100.delecr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 26/07/16 07:52, Volker Braun wrote: >> >> On Tuesday, July 26, 2016 at 1:25:34 PM UTC+2, Erik Bray wrote: >>> >>> >>> 2) Currently this feature is intended as a developer tool only; >> >> >> >> On the plu

Re: [sage-devel] Sage on Bash on Ubuntu on Windows

2016-07-26 Thread Vincent Delecroix
On 26/07/16 07:52, Volker Braun wrote: On Tuesday, July 26, 2016 at 1:25:34 PM UTC+2, Erik Bray wrote: 2) Currently this feature is intended as a developer tool only; On the plus side every user who is interested in Sage will immensely benefit from the scientific software universe that ope

Re: [sage-devel] Sage on Bash on Ubuntu on Windows

2016-07-26 Thread 'Bill Hart' via sage-devel
I don't see any reason why Sage under the WSL should be much slower than a native app. I strongly suspect it will be way faster and certainly infinitely better than Cygwin. On Tuesday, 26 July 2016 14:10:57 UTC+2, Jori Mäntysalo wrote: > > On Tue, 26 Jul 2016, VulK wrote: > > > Clearly performa

Re: [sage-devel] Sage on Bash on Ubuntu on Windows

2016-07-26 Thread Jori Mäntysalo
On Tue, 26 Jul 2016, VulK wrote: Clearly performance are not going to be good, native applications are the way to go for this; on the other hand I am not sure it is much (or at all?) slower than a virtual machine setup. Virtualization is not emulation. CPU-intensive applications have more tha

Re: [sage-devel] Sage on Bash on Ubuntu on Windows

2016-07-26 Thread Volker Braun
On Tuesday, July 26, 2016 at 1:25:34 PM UTC+2, Erik Bray wrote: > > 2) Currently this feature is intended as a developer tool only; On the plus side every user who is interested in Sage will immensely benefit from the scientific software universe that opens up by installing the ubuntu-on-windo

Re: [sage-devel] Sage on Bash on Ubuntu on Windows

2016-07-26 Thread Erik Bray
On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 1:42 PM, VulK wrote: > I am not proposing this as our final solution since, as you point out, it is > a suboptimal hack on many respects; I am just saying that we can use this > today (actually from Aug 2nd) to bring anyone running windows 10 on the sage > bandwagon with mi

Re: [sage-devel] Sage on Bash on Ubuntu on Windows

2016-07-26 Thread VulK
I am not proposing this as our final solution since, as you point out, it is a suboptimal hack on many respects; I am just saying that we can use this today (actually from Aug 2nd) to bring anyone running windows 10 on the sage bandwagon with minimal effort on our side. If I am not mistaken Bash sh

Re: [sage-devel] Sage on Bash on Ubuntu on Windows

2016-07-26 Thread Erik Bray
On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 10:19 AM, VulK wrote: > Hi All, > Some time ago I briefly played with Bash on Ubuntu on Windows with some > limited success. The situation dramatically improved recently. I would risk > saying that our nightmares to support windows are nearly over. > > > Microsoft W

[sage-devel] Sage on Bash on Ubuntu on Windows

2016-07-26 Thread VulK
Hi All, Some time ago I briefly played with Bash on Ubuntu on Windows with some limited success. The situation dramatically improved recently. I would risk saying that our nightmares to support windows are nearly over. Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.14393] (c) 2016 Microsoft Corp