On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 03:25:09PM -0700, Volker Braun wrote:
> I've built a Sage-4.7 VM with my automatic script:
> http://www.stp.dias.ie/~vbraun/Sage/Sage-4.7.ova
Thanks for your work on this! I installed it yesterday on a
colleague's machine (I am assuming that this is the same as the one we
get via the link "Download Sage for windows").
Some feedback:
- VMware 4.6 and the new version I got when VMware suggested to
upgrade both complained about "unknown -t option" when cliking on
Sage-4.7.ova. I then tried loading the virtual machine directly
from VMware, and also got a problem. Alas I did not keep track of
the error message; it may have been the same. I then switched to
virtual box, and it worked.
- Would it be possible to include latex in the virtual machine? If at
all possible with a recent pgf/tikz package? Otherwise view does
not work, and the documentation cannot be rebuilt properly.
- Is there a reason why the virtual machine grew from 1Gb to 1.4Gb?
- It would be good to choose once for all a strategy: either to have
a full linux distro, and expect the user to use firefox within the
virtual machine (as for 4.6), or to have a text-only linux distro,
and expect the user to connect to the notebook server from its
Windows browser. The Windows user I have helped find it confusing
to switch from one strategy to the other depending on the version
of Sage. I don't have a real preference. Having a full linux distro
makes it a bit easier to go beyond basic usage, and do things like
editing the Sage sources or installing the Sage-Combinat patches.
But it's bigger.
- It would be great if there was a single and up to date source of
truth for how to install Sage under windows.
Cheers,
Nicolas
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Nicolas M. Thiéry "Isil" <nthi...@users.sf.net>
http://Nicolas.Thiery.name/
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