On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Georg S. Weber <georgswe...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> >> > but its less error prone imho. >> >> This is probably true. VirtualBox is massively more widely used. >> When we used to distribute a coLinux version of Sage (in 2006), I >> remember watching many Windows laptops crash hard due to their >> low-level driver. But that was 5 years ago, and things may have >> changed by now. >> >> -- William > > With a well-maintained "Sage deployment via VirtualBox image" > solution, we would not only address the Windows OS(es)--- but every > system where (the minimal version required by the featuers Sage uses > of) VirtualBox runs. Both from the user *and* the developer point of > view (I easily can load a certain VB image on my OS X and check some > error report)! > > And especially, whenever a new Fedora, RedHat, Ubuntu, Debian, > OpenSuse, OS X, Solaris, Windows ... version comes out, where we > didn't have the time/resources/whatever yet to make Sage work on it > "natively", we always could tell the users at least to use that "Just > works!" solution as a fallback.
Let's focus our energy on doing this. Let's also plan to fully support having both a 32 and 64-bit version. Right now I think we only provide a 32-bit VM. If we are organized, we can do both 32 and 64-bit. william > > Since there seems to be some need in discussing details, making some > decisions, and (most importantly!) to document the latter, why not use > the http://wiki.sagemath.org/devel/SEP process (or is there an > alternative, better place to do "requirements fixation" for such Sage > develop tasks)? > Which reminds to check whether I still remember my Sage Wiki login and > password ... > > > Cheers, > Georg > > -- > To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel > URL: http://www.sagemath.org -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
