E. M. Bray

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Per discussion today with @nthiery and @jdemeyer, it would be nice to have other images for testing sage on other OSes--i.e. debian, arch, etc. as well as different architectures (mainly...

FWIW here is some very rough resource usage on Windows 7 using docker. More detailed analysis may follow another time. Also what are some good performance tests for sage? Here...

Had a user who was confused when clicking through the Mac download links, and I agree it was confusing: E.g. from http://www.sagemath.org/download-mac.html when one selects a mirror they are first...

I have people asking me for checksums of released files (for the Windows exe in particular). The current mirrors support MD5 sums which is fine for download verification, but not...

The official cygwin mirrors feature "rolling releases" where every time new packages are updated only the previous one or two version remain available. It's also not possible with the Cygwin...

Until there's a better resolution to the issue of installing optional packages, which is still tricky to get right in all cases, maybe it would be good to include a...

See https://ask.sagemath.org/question/43049/unable-to-download-to-pdf On Cygwin, if nbconvert finds a native Windows LaTeX distribution it should convert the paths to Windows paths. That, or we should just include a LaTeX distribution in...

I've seen one or two people request this before. I don't think it's high priority but it would be worth seeing how much size it adds to the installation. It...

It seems [nteract](https://nteract.io/) might provide everything I've *been* wanting in terms of better desktop integration experience. I had heard the name before but didn't really realize what it did. At...

As noted at https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/28695#comment:11 a Cygwin installation, including many of the packages installed with Sage (particularly executables included with GCC), install hardlinks for several files. It's hard to get an...