I must confess I have never dealt with Magma… So let us talk about the ease of installation of the other 3.
Guillermo On Mon, 25 Apr 2022 at 12:24, John Cremona <john.crem...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, 25 Apr 2022 at 11:18, G. M.-S. <lists....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On macOS: A wonderful app, thanks to Marc Culler. > > > > On Windows: Too complex for my far from savvy students. We are stuck > with SageMath 9.3 for the time being. > > > > On Linux: It depends on the distribution, some have totally outdated > versions (as seen now and then in messages to sage-support). > > > > Most people are unable to build SageMath from scratch, or to use Conda, > or VMs, or dockers, or whatever. > > > > In 2022, anybody should be able to get SageMath with a regular > installation procedure. > > > > In my opinion, "Creating a viable free open source alternative to Magma, > Maple, Mathematica and Matlab" means also "as easy to install as Magma, > Maple, Mathematica and MATLAB". > > I regularly update Magma installations on a few machines. Each time I > have to download two files (one binary and one big tar file) and I > have my own bash script to run to install them, using a su account on > each machine. This would not be a very easy thing to do for a > beginner. > > Just saying, > > John > > > But I do not know if we have the people and the time for it. > > > > Guillermo > > > > On Mon, 25 Apr 2022 at 11:32, Dima Pasechnik <dimp...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> > >> On Mon, 25 Apr 2022, 08:39 seb....@gmail.com, <seb.oe...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >>> > >>> Actually we no longer advertise the binary distribution. > >>> > >>> So, what do we advertise to potential newcomers to Sage? I think > despite such great things as Cocalc, SageMathCell and Gitpod, there should > be something easy to install that can be used offline, too. > >> > >> several Linux distributions carry reasonably up to date binary Sage > installations (and these can be installed on various VMs, e.g. on Windows' > WSL, ChromeOS' Crostini, etc) > >> > >> Then, there is Conda, there is an macOS app, and there are docker > images. > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/CANnG188gwCwx1CD_JQh0y2nuPcuE4iE_PCopBiAFEeJKAQ_ejQ%40mail.gmail.com.
