Thanks for giving it a try! On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 9:35 PM, Sebastien Gouezel <sebastien.goue...@gmail.com> wrote: > Just tried it (on Windows 10 Pro 64 bits). In the end, it works, but I had > to work a little bit for this: > > - when installing docker, it removed my git and installed its own git > instead, without asking for anything. A little bit rude, as I liked my > version better...
Yes, I agree. This is a bug with the Docker installer itself--it doesn't make it possible to deselect git installation (for Sage purposes it's not necessary for it to install git at all!). I have an upstream ticket for that and I think there is a fix for that now but I need to double-check. > - more serious, the sagemath VM did not start. The reason is that I had > VirtualBox 4.2 already installed, while Docker requires VirtualBox 5.0 at > least. Docker should have warned me about this, uninstalled the old > VirtualBox and installed the new one instead, but it didn't. And then, of > course, it could not start, without any error message. I had to dig a little > bit to understand what was going on. It would be nice if the error messages > of Docker were shown to the user. > when the VM can not be installed. This is also an upstream issue with Docker. If you look in the source for their installer there's a TODO item to check to version of VirtualBox :) > The second problem is likely to happen to anyone who has already used a > Sagemath VM on Windows. For newcomers, there should be no issue, and then > the installation is much smoother than with the previous system (just one > file to download, click OK several times, and then everything is functional, > so definitely a huge progress!). However, there are still the limitations of > virtual machines (for instance, it can not use my systemwide latex, if I > understand correctly). Cygwin looks to me to be a more promising route in > this respect (sage on cygwin 64 is almost completely functional with good > performance, with the exception of a buggy singular - hopefully, trac 17254 > will bring improvements when/if completed). Yes, I think this approach is mainly useful for newcomers. The majority of the problems you mentioned came in due to already having various bits of this installed. I'm not quite sure I understand the point about latex. I'm -1 on Cygwin for a few reasons, but am working on building Sage natively for Windows without a posix-compatibility layer. (Though I'm not opposed to supporting Cygwin too of course but I don't think it's the most user-friendly approach in the long term). For an "average" user I think this installer is much friendlier than any other currently working approach. -- 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 post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
