> A launcher written in Python could be used on other OS'es, too. good point
> VBscript is an ugly abomination, nobody in his right mind will voluntarily > use it. Lots of people (windows folks) use it even voluntarily - I will not speculate on their (or my) state of mind ... >Not to mention that we have lots of people with Python skills. good point My first thought was it might be overkill to ship a complete programming language and a Gui frontend for the sake of writing a small launcher application (or "rewrite" parts of the VirtualBox control GUI). But OK, this goes into the same line as the "size of the VM" discussion - I won't argue about pulling in additional 1 or 2 MB's ;-). For anybody interested, this is the code (VBscript ) of the NSIS Sage- Virtualbox Windows installer. http://boxen.math.washington.edu/home/emil/Win-Inst/SageWinInstBuildDir/main.nsi It mostly brings up some Messageboxes or calls VBoxManage with "ExecWait", no rocket science involved. So it might be an abomination but one could manage. -- 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
