On Thu, 28 Aug 2014, Emil Widmann wrote:
IMO there are three big issues with the current Sage Windows VM:
1 - It's slow because it runs within the VM (which also causes some
usability issues with multiple webpages by the OS setup); this also
has high memory usage.
2 - It's too big (I think it's something like 3+ GB)
3 - You can't upgrade Sage or really work with different branches as
far as I remember.
For casual sage *user*, not *developer*, those are not necessarily
problems. They might be, but one can have fast computer, enought bandwith
for downloading etc.
However, can we put VirtualBox and Sage to one .exe? What is really needed
is to convert http://wiki.sagemath.org/SageAppliance to be just "1)
Download this .exe, 2) Doubleclick it, 3) Ready".
I am now thinking for example university class using Sage as a part of
some course. Teachers don't want to use time for being it-support;
students do not try installing Sage, if it SEEMS to be complicated.
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Jori Mäntysalo
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