On Mar 8, 2013, at 3:27 AM, P Purkayastha <ppu...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 03/08/2013 05:43 PM, mmarco wrote: >> IIRC, the call for projects of Google summer of code was last year >> around march or april. Should we start to get prepared for this? >> >> As a suggestion for possible projects, i would propose the writing of >> a windows GUI program that handles the virtual machines (set them up >> properly, handles upgradings, checks the availability of ports and >> decides if the VM should be launched in headless mode...) >> >> It sounds like a project that can be done in a summer, and can be >> really useful to spread sage among windows users. >> > > This is too little I think. The following can be added to it
I don't know anything about Windows programming, but I don't think this is a trivial project. As evidenced partly by the fact that no one has done it yet (I tried to convince my brother to do it once). I think a basic solution might be pretty easy, but if you really make it robust with respect to firewall settings, getting data in and out, upgrading the vm, etc., I think it could be quite a lot of work. But perhaps not enough for a whole summer, I don't know. Even though I never use Windows, I think this would be a good project for Sage. > 1. Fix the Mac application. See > http://ask.sagemath.org/question/2322/trouble-logging-into-notebook > for what currently happens on a Mac I'm fairly certain this is fixed in sage-5.8.beta0. Sorry, I haven't been keeping up with ask.sagemath.org as well as I should. Though to be honest I might have missed it anyway since it's not tagged with Mac App or similar. > 2. Open sage to the worksheet when double clicking on sws files. This is > already mostly done for Mac, and should be done for Linux too :) The problem with this is that someone with the expertise to make a good Windows GUI might not be able to work on Linux (or Mac). But perhaps they could help with the cygwin port? -Ivan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
