Just to give my point of view: (I'm not taking part in development at the moment either) A native windows port seems like a good idea, iff there are people willing to do it and iff it won't take any ressources from other parts of the project. I'm sure a port would also increase the overall quality, but it comes at a high price (of work). I'm not sure that sticking with a vmware image at reperesents a problem. Nowadays vmware is well-known and well-supported in many companies and I don't think that installing vmware is SUCH a great step to undertake for an individual. That said, the vmware image is easier to maintain and as Prof. Stein said, if some more effort is put in there, it can be made smaller. If there are people willing to do it, a windows port is a great opportunity, but if those people are missed for developing the "core functionality", I really believe that we should wait for the right time. And another opinion: I think the priority of getting into Debian should be higher.
Btw, I didn't know that there is so much emphasis on Linux at the University of Vienna (since I live in Vienna). Thanks for the information, Harald. Cheers, Fabio On 12/21/07, Joel B. Mohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 10:45:06AM -0500, David Harvey wrote: > > (4) I wonder if it's possible for the Sage foundation to set up a > > server and buy a small number of windows licenses for remote access. > > Say like 4 licenses, so only four people can be logged in at a time. > > Maybe that's a cost effective and legal way to do this. (Oh yeah, and > > then tell me I have to pay money for the client software too. Please > > say no.) > > In my opinion, if you want to do windows dev work this hypothetical sage > foundation windows machine also needs MSVC. That's a fair chunk of change > and > more change for more users. It's really a *very* good tool though. It's > one of > about 3 programs that I'd say MS really beat the competition with. > > As for client software, I use > http://www.rdesktop.org/ > with good success. I guess it could be coaxed into working with os x -- > I've > only ever tried with linux. But, it's reverse engineered so there are a few > rough edges, but these are mostly confined to more esoteric things like > remoting the audio and stuff like that (which it seems to me, no one in > their > right mind would want to do anyhow.) > > -- > Joel > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
