Re: [sage-devel] RFC: Draft blog post on Sage for Windows

2017-08-31 Thread Erik Bray
On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 1:15 PM, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > In the long section "Rationale for Cygwin and possible alternatives", I > would add subsections for each alternative. Will do. >> [hardware-assisted virtualization] typically does not come enabled by >> default (as a security measure) > >

Re: [sage-devel] RFC: Draft blog post on Sage for Windows

2017-08-31 Thread Jori Mäntysalo
On Thu, 31 Aug 2017, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: the main problem is that 32-bit Windows applications have a user address space limited to just 2 GB (or 3 GB with a special boot flag). This is in fact not enough to fit all of Sage into memory at once. Is this still true by default with PAE enabled?

Re: [sage-devel] RFC: Draft blog post on Sage for Windows

2017-08-31 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
In the long section "Rationale for Cygwin and possible alternatives", I would add subsections for each alternative. [hardware-assisted virtualization] typically does not come enabled by default (as a security measure) Is that really true? What is non-secure about hardware-assisted virtualiz

Re: [sage-devel] RFC: Draft blog post on Sage for Windows

2017-08-30 Thread Kwankyu Lee
Great work! > Some more typos: * plots will saved -> plots will be saved * (HAV) to enabled -> (HAV) to be enabled * should be considered a service -> should be considered as a service -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubs

Re: [sage-devel] RFC: Draft blog post on Sage for Windows

2017-08-30 Thread Erik Bray
Thanks for the feedback! On Aug 30, 2017 19:32, "David Roe" wrote: Looks good! Here are a few suggestions It might be worth adding some reasons that a VM is onerous (having to use an unfamiliar OS, difficulties with file system access and networking) Yeah, I think you're right. I cons

Re: [sage-devel] RFC: Draft blog post on Sage for Windows

2017-08-30 Thread David Roe
Looks good! Here are a few suggestions It might be worth adding some reasons that a VM is onerous (having to use an unfamiliar OS, difficulties with file system access and networking) You say "Sage Math Console" but the picture just says "Sage Math 8.0". I assume that the {:class="img-re

[sage-devel] RFC: Draft blog post on Sage for Windows

2017-08-30 Thread Erik Bray
Hi all, I've drafted a blog post describing some of my work on the Windows installer for Sage. You can see the post previewed here: https://github.com/embray/OpenDreamKit.github.io/blob/blog/sage-windows/_posts/2017-08-28-SageWindows.md I'd appreciate any feedback / corrections / suggestions /