On Dec 21, 2007 11:56 AM, harald schilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Dec 20, 9:39 pm, "Ondrej Certik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If Michael and others succeed in a native Windows port, needing just > > couple hundreds MB, then Sage > > will be a killer app. > > But please don't forget, sage is about open source - and windows is > the complete opposite. Supporting all modules native for win32 is > impossible, drains off a lot of worktime and using cygwin as an > intermediate solution makes it slow, besides additional constant > work! > So i would suggest an additional workstation and run the linux version > and access it over the local network. Therefore nobody has to install > an application in windows and the entry level is 0.
Those people will imho not install a linux anytime soon. But after discussing this on #sage-devel, a reasonable compromise is to provide small wmware image, full wmware image, and of course, optionally a native windows port - but as you say, it drains off resources. Ondrej --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
