I'm very happy to see improvements to the Windows installation. I don't have the time right now to try your powershell script, but it looks like a nice walk-through for not-so-technical users. Do you want to add it to the docs?
Another alternative would be to import the docker image as a WSL distribution. From a user perspective, this would be simply setting up WSL, downloading the docker image as a tar file and then run wsl --import SageMath <path to the tar file>. The tar file could be automatically generated from the docker image upon releasing a new version of sage (in github ci). See https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/use-custom-distro. But I don't have experience with this mode of installation, so I don't know if there are hidden shortcomings. On Wednesday, October 16, 2024 at 7:45:14 PM UTC+8 Eric Gourgoulhon wrote: > Thank you very much Julian and Sebastian for these initiatives! > On ask.sagemath, we see too many messages from Windows users not managing > to install Sage. A recent example is > > https://ask.sagemath.org/question/79640/error-during-configuration-with-wsl/ > We also see messages from users stuck to Sage 9.3, which is the latest > Cygwin version... > > Eric. > > -- 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/e8f6f1c4-8e5e-45ff-afd2-8dc9535e838en%40googlegroups.com.
