2009/7/25 Robert Bradshaw <rober...@math.washington.edu>: > I've learned to never underestimate the ignorance of computer users. > It's not that they're all unintelligent, but the number of people > that just want to use a computer vastly outnumbers the number of > people that want to learn anything about computers. Often they just > want to spend their time learning about different things (just as I > want to drive a car, but personally have no interest in repairing > one). "Download this file and double-click on it" or "go to this site > and create a username/password" is fine for most people, but as we > learned with 7zip, anything more, even with a clear README.txt, is a > surprisingly high barrier. > > Of course, even now, there are lots of windows users (at least it > seems to be the largest download).
I wonder if it would be possible to create a setup.exe which someone downloaded, clicked on the setup.exe, which then installed the vmware software, set up Sage, and *everything* with them doing no more than they would with any other windows application? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
