On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Dr. David Kirkby <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm just trying to create a revised 'prereq' script, which I updated > recently. One of the things I notice in there is these few lines. > > echo "Unfortunately, building SAGE on Cygwin is not currently > supported," > echo "though we are actively working on supporting it. If you > would like" > echo "to help with the porting effort, please post to" > echo "" > echo " http://groups.google.com/group/sage-windows"; > echo "" > echo "Also, see http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/6743"; > echo "In the meantime, to run Sage on Windows, please use" > echo "a virtualization solution instead, such as VMware." > echo "To get past this message, export the variable 'SAGE_PORT' to" > echo "something non-empty." > exit 1 > > > > 1) Should this still say only VMware, or should it say VirtualBox, or > mention both? > > 2) Should it offer any preference, or otherwise help a user chose what > one of the two to use? > > 3) Should it mention anything about live CD's, or VMware images? > > > Just let me know what is best, and I'll make any changes necessary.
My fervent hope is that within a few days we'll have a good VirtualBox solution for Windows. That isn't the case yet. So you could put VirtualBox as long as your change doesn't go into a released sage within the new few days. William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
