On 8/7/07, Alec Mihailovs wrote: > > 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.
??? In my reading of English this sounds like you strongly disagree. :-( > Also, the notebook running in IE 7 would be much more attractive for > many Windows users (including me) than in Firefox. > I draw the line there! I very much prefer FireFox and strongly encourage all the Windows users I know to switch to FireFox. I know from even simple projects that Javascript compatibility between Explorer and FireFox can be a real pain. But yes compatibility of the notebook with Explorer would be nice. What are the known problems if you try it now? > > > 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. > I am not sure if this is necessary but apparently Python can be built under MSYS/MinGW (I haven't tried this). See: http://jove.prohosting.com/iwave/ipython/pyMinGW.html Regards, Bill Page. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
