On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 1:48 AM, Tim Kroeger <> wrote: > Dear Mr. Stein, > > I appreciate the Sage software project and would like to use it in my > lectures for some demonstration purposes. However, I would like to easily > enable interested students to re-run the shown examples on their home > computers, and I assume that most students will be using Microsoft Windows. > As far as I understand, running Sage in Microsoft Windows is currently only > possible via a virtual machine. Although the installtion is > well-documented, I fear that many students would find this far too > complicated and hence refrain from running the examples. On the other hand, > on http://www.sagemath.org/development-ack.html, you write that Microsoft > Research is funding a native port of Sage to Microsoft Windows. My question > is now: Is there still work on that native port and, if yes, can you give > any estimate about when it might be available?
There are currently no plans to have a native port of Sage to Microsoft Windows. (The funding from Microsoft was back in 2007 and was far, far too small to complete and maintain such a project.) There are plans to make http://sagenb.org, http://aleph.sagemath.org and related web services far more scalable and robust than they currently are. Such web services are the best current option for tech-naive MS Windows users. > > Best Regards, > > Tim Kröger > > -- > Prof. Dr. Tim Kröger > Georg Simon Ohm University of Applied Sciences -- 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
