Re: Re: [sage-devel] Some questions about Sage goals

2009-11-19 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 1:42 AM, Martin Albrecht wrote: >  > > I understand that you have to run Sage as a sort of server. I remember >> > I had to use VMWare. And then you access it from the browser, and it's >> > an AJAX thing that makes it behave like a notebook. >> > Why? Why not something lik

Re: [sage-devel] Some questions about Sage goals

2009-11-19 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
cool-RR wrote: > I understand that you have to run Sage as a sort of server. I remember > I had to use VMWare. And then you access it from the browser, and it's > an AJAX thing that makes it behave like a notebook. > > Why? Why not something like Mathematica, where you just open a normal > program

Re: Re: [sage-devel] Some questions about Sage goals

2009-11-19 Thread Martin Albrecht
> > I understand that you have to run Sage as a sort of server. I remember > > I had to use VMWare. And then you access it from the browser, and it's > > an AJAX thing that makes it behave like a notebook. > > Why? Why not something like Mathematica, where you just open a normal > > program and ha

Re: [sage-devel] Some questions about Sage goals

2009-11-18 Thread Alex Clemesha
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 9:42 PM, Tom Boothby wrote: > 1) There's a Windows port underway. We'd LOVE for Sage to be a native > windows app, despite all of the headache that doing that will cause > for some people around here. This "huge corpus of available > mathematical algorithms and packages"

Re: [sage-devel] Some questions about Sage goals

2009-11-18 Thread Tom Boothby
1) There's a Windows port underway. We'd LOVE for Sage to be a native windows app, despite all of the headache that doing that will cause for some people around here. This "huge corpus of available mathematical algorithms and packages" is largely unsupported on Windows, so the main sticking point

Re: [sage-devel] Some questions about Sage goals

2009-11-18 Thread Jan Groenewald
Hi On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 09:20:40PM -0800, cool-RR wrote: > I understood that the goal is to take from the huge corpus of > available mathematical algorithms and packages, and combine them in > one seamless package (Which is a huge amount of work, of course.) Is > that true? Yes, but adding a h