On Feb 13, 12:51 am, "Dr. David Kirkby" <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: > On 02/12/12 03:06 PM, rjf wrote: > > > Microsoft and Google/Motorola are suing each other. > > Do you get money from Microsoft? > > Just a thought. > > > You could propose to Google to port Sage to run on Windows/ natively, > > not. > > I believe a complete native port would be an almost impossibility. I don't > think > many developers are keen on Windoze, so it would be less easy to attract > developers unless they were paid to do it.
So ask for money to pay them not to do it, from Google. Frankly, I think a person competent in Windows technology could do this. In my own experience, Maxima runs fine under windows. Also in my experience, GMP and MPFR run under Windows, but maybe require additional non-free software development environments. This is not a problem if you drop the requirement that every recipient of Sage must be able to COMPILE stuff locally. Just have one person compile the stuff once and distribute dll files. I suppose it is possible that some Sage propeller-heads have written python or C code that cannot be compiled under windows, but it seems to me more likely that it is a question of finding a skilled person, and not so much of problematical code. A skilled person who cares to look at code base, and has a spare week or two. > > I must admit, I would have thought a Cygwin port easier than it seems to be. I > recall at one time wondering whether the Solaris or Cygwin port would be > completed first, but Solaris got there several years ago, and the Cgywin port > seems less likely to be completed now than it did a few years ago. > > Microsoft were at some time funding a Windoze port of Sage, but I believe the > amount of funding they gave was far too small to make the slightest dent in > the > problem. Money misspent on unskilled labor, perhaps. Incidentally, I am by no means suggesting that I have the needed skills. (I think I can identify someone who could do it, however.) RJF > > Dave -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
