> *If I understand correctly from your link, approach D may get close to this?* Yes, that's true. But I don't know the timeline for that.
I find it unfortunate that your university is withholding WSL from you, as I consider it the best thing Microsoft has produced in the last decade. Nevertheless, I think WSL should only be a temporary solution until option D is available (see also my comments in https://github.com/sagemath/sage-windows/issues/3). > *If you have specific requests for feedback (i.e. if you want me to try something)* Tobias, can you elaborate on this? Best Sebastian aska...@gmail.com schrieb am Donnerstag, 21. August 2025 um 17:29:52 UTC+2: > Hi, > > I use Sagemath on Windows (essentially because my university only supports > Windows, but also because I prefer Windows to other systems and I cannot > really deal with having separate machines for programming and everything > else). My university provides Sagemath on version 9.1 on the old Windows > installer (and I fear they discontinue it once they find out that it is no > longer supported). Using it via WSL doesn't work unless one has admin > privileges and knows how to disable our VPN (which is something we are not > meant to do, and that I am pretty sure they don't know I know how to do). > > I am saying the above because my feedback would be to get as close as > possible to "no WSL" as many universities tend to disable it. If I > understand correctly from your link, approach D may get close to this? If > you have specific requests for feedback (i.e. if you want me to try > something), let me know and I can do this in September. > > Thanks for making new Sagemath options for Windows users! > > Best, > > Jesús > > On Monday, 18 August 2025 at 18:45:30 UTC+2 seb....@gmail.com wrote: > >> > *A big thanks, Marc.* >> >> +1 >> >> > *I am looking forward to testing it with my colleagues, students and >> friends, especially those on Windows.* >> >> BTW: Eight months ago, we reactivated the sage-windows repository >> <https://github.com/sagemath/sage-windows>, which was once used to >> provide Windows installers for Sage via Cygwin. The goal was to create a >> place where we could share the current status of our efforts to provide >> easy access for Windows users and finally make such installers available >> from there. Unfortunately, work on the repository has stalled, primarily >> due to a lack of feedback. >> >> There are currently four approaches to obtaining installers for Sage on >> Windows, again. At least the approach marked with "C" still works for all >> Sage releases available on DockerHub >> <https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/sagemath/sagemath/tags>. I >> suggest adding AppImage as a fifth approach. >> >> >> GMS schrieb am Samstag, 16. August 2025 um 11:10:33 UTC+2: >> >>> >>> A big thanks, Marc. I am looking forward to testing it with my >>> colleagues, students and friends, especially those on Windows. >>> >>> Best, >>> >>> Guillermo >>> >>> On Sat, 16 Aug 2025 at 10:56, Eric Gourgoulhon <egourg...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> This is great news! >>>> Thank you very much for making this possible! >>>> >>>> Eric. >>>> >>>> Le vendredi 15 août 2025 à 16:34:29 UTC+2, marc....@gmail.com a écrit : >>>> >>>>> The 3-manifolds project is now distributing a beta version of >>>>> SageMath-x86_64.AppImage >>>>> <https://github.com/3-manifolds/sage_appimage/releases> . >>>>> This means that SageMath 10.7 can be installed and run on any version >>>>> of linux which is compatible with manylinux2014 by downloading one file >>>>> and >>>>> marking it as executable. The compatible linux systems include Ubuntu >>>>> 24.04, Debian 12 and the default ubuntu image for Windows 11 WSL2, none >>>>> of >>>>> which are currently providing any sagemath packages. >>>>> >>>>> This continues our effort to make sage accessible to the large group >>>>> of users which includes most students and most of their professors and >>>>> which consists of people who are not interested in, or not capable of, >>>>> learning how to compile sage or maintain 3rd party package managers -- >>>>> people who expect to be able to just download a program and run it. >>>>> While, >>>>> as a reader of this email list, you probably do not belong to that group, >>>>> we are hoping that you do have an interest in increasing access to sage >>>>> and >>>>> that you might be interested in testing the AppImage and reporting any >>>>> issues you encounter. >>>>> >>>>> For those who are not familiar with the AppImage format, it is simply >>>>> an ELF binary executable file containing a very small program with an >>>>> arbitrarily large squashfs filesystem appended. The small program does a >>>>> fuse mount of the squashfs filesystem and then execs a main program >>>>> located >>>>> at the root of the filesystem. The squashfs should contain all library >>>>> dependencies of the main program, and all dynamic libraries should be >>>>> loaded from an rpath pointing into the squashfs. That way the AppImage >>>>> has >>>>> no external dependencies. >>>>> >>>>> - Marc >>>>> >>>> >>> >> -- 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 view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/4305910c-cbb1-47cf-9429-3c0a99a114edn%40googlegroups.com.
