On Dec 22, 2007 1:16 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Did you first run the VMware vmshrink utility, then turn the vmware > machine off and exit vmware before creating the 7z file? Also, > how big is your vmware-sage-deluxe when uncompressed?
vmshrink gives the result "disk compression disabled". I compiled vmshrink from source and used the pre-built binary to doublecheck, I'll have to look into my VMware workstation settings to see if I've got something off. vmware-sage-deluxe (nice name) was about 6.8 Gb as of 2.9. It's a bit bigger now, but I'll check into reducing it. > Do you think you could somewhat commit to making new vmware > sage releases for "the next 2-3 months", say? Sure! I'm upgrading Sage to 2.9.1 right now. In order of priority, I'm working on: 1. Upgrade to 2.9.1 (and follow-ons) 2. shrink with vmtools 3. Secure some space for regular uploads (checking with our local cluster group right now for access) 4. Bundle in vmtools for better graphics performance (last time I tried, required rpm tools, and didn't build) 5. Build version with more generic monitor resolutions I also need some time to look over how you're doing a build from scratch, to see if I'm off or there's other things that could be done. > Optimally we would just included it on the main sagemath.org website > under downloads, and mirror it out to the mirrors. Okay. I'm a little short on space to put the image up for you to look at right now, but I expect to get a vmware-sage-deluxe image available for download so you can look it over in the first week of January or so. What a great tool! I was just giving up on Python for scientific programming, as they'd taken steps away from functional programming in Python 3000. > -- William Adam -- "Invincibility is in oneself, vulnerability in the opponent." -- Sun Tzu --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://sage.math.washington.edu/sage/ and http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
