From: "Bill Page" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > As technically hard as it might be, I think having a native Windows > version of Sage - even if it includes only a subset of the standard > packages - would likely be a big factor in attracting more users.
Being a Windows user, I can't agree less. Also, the notebook running in IE 7 would be much more attractive for many Windows users (including me) than in Firefox. > Having even a subset of Sage available as a > native Windows application would introduce many more users to Sage and > probably motivate some of them to install Linux in order to access the > full version. I always have few Linuxes installed, just for running programs (such as SAGE) that are not available in Windows. Still, it's not the same. > I think the best tool for building a native Windows version of Sage is > probably MSYS/MinGW which is really a cross-compiler and gnu tool set > that provides a Linux-like environment only during the build. The end > product is a native Windows application that does not depend on any > Linux emulation layer. Unfortunately some of the standard packages in > Sage can not be built in this way and to make matters worse, as far as > I know the pexpect module that is required for interface with packages > like Maxima has not been successfully ported to Windows. However, for Python extensions, the compiler should be the same as the compiler used to build Python - for Windows it is Visual Studio (Express is OK) 2005. Alec --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
