On Dec 21, 6:27 pm, "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.)
>
Hi,
> 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.
While MSVC 2005 is a pretty decent compiler and the GUI is preferred
by many I wouldn't really say that it is better than the competition.
But that is certainly my personal preference. And the Express edition
is "free", all you need to do is give your personal information to
Microsoft to download it. And that edition should be enough to build
Sage on Windows. The problem I foresee is the need for a good Fortran
compiler that is 32/64 bit capable and also doesn't come with its own
compat lib library, i.e. links properly to PE binaries. And at the
moment that is Intel's Fortran compiler, which is not free, neither as
in money nor freedom.
> As for client software, I usehttp://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.)
Well, given enought bandwidth rdesktop is good enough to do remote
work.
>
> --
> Joel
Cheers,
Michael
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