On Aug 8, 4:25 am, "Alec Mihailovs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: "Bill Page" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> >> Being a Windows user, I can't agree less.
>
> > ??? In my reading of English this sounds like you strongly disagree. :-(
>
> Yes, my English is not that great. Certainly I meant "strongly agree" :-)
>
> > I am not sure if this is necessary but apparently Python can be built
> > under MSYS/MinGW (I haven't tried this). See:
>
> I meant that the standard Windows Python available from python.org was built
> using Visual Studio 2005. I tried once to build it with Visual C++ Express
> 2005 (that is free as beer), and it worked fine, too.
>
> In general, I think that the best way for using Sage in Windows would be not
> to include such things as Python, Singular, GAP etc., but assume that users
> already have them, or are able to install them themselves - that would make
> porting much easier.
>
> Alec
The compartmentilazation of SAGE has been suggested many times before,
but as William has stated many times: This makes testing and debugging
infinitely more diffcult. It is also extreme likely that if you use
even minor different versions of certain packages like Maxima things
no longer work properly.
Cheers,
Michael
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