On Sat, Jun 04, 2011 at 09:57:40AM -0700, Volker Braun wrote:
> You don't need any GUI to install the sage combinat patches.
Indeed. But you need to log in to the virtual machine, which is not
hard, but not obvious either. By the way, could there be a message
written on the virtual machine startup saying:
"to get a shell, do ... and log in as ... / ..."
The concrete use case is for mathematician colleagues with minimal
computer science background that want to use our software. Well,
alternatively, I can tell them to do it from a %sh in the notebook;
but in case of trouble it gets messy.
> For developing Sage you should probably install Linux first.
I sure agree. But I have trouble convincing several colleagues that
want to go a bit further with Sage but don't want to switch system :-)
> Still, if you have to use a VM for some reason then I think its
> better to export the sage directory via Samba.
Is it done automatically? That would be great. Again, our use case is
non-computer proficient potential developpers.
Btw: an advantage of the no-GUI approach is a reduced memory
footprint.
> than have a GUI editor run inside the VM. If you are happy with
> vi/emacs then you probably run Linux already...
Just for the record, we had several beginners use gedit or variants.
> The VM is larger than before because it is not particularly tuned
> for the minimal number of packages.
Ok.
> There is a certain trade-off between minimal size and making it
> easy to create the base linux install, and I don't see much point
> in spending time to save a little bit of hdd space.
> Adding latex/libpng/libjpg/cairo will make it even bigger, but
> again I think usability is more important than space savings.
hdd space and download time! But +1 on usability.
Thanks again for your work!
Cheers,
Nicolas
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