It seems Sage really could do with a native windows port. I am wondering how practical it would be to make a version which is a subset of Sage, with something like Qt which runs on Windows, Linux, OSX and Solaris and has the look and feel of those platforms.
It could make a Google Summer of Code project. If a small subset could be implemented, the chances are reasonable that others might port more bits. If it could do more than a scientific calculator, that would probably be enough to get people using it. Call it "Mini Sage" or something similar to indicate it is not the full version. I believe that there are some are some bits of Sage that uses fork and has have no Windows equivalent, so those bits could be left out. Perhaps at a later date a complete rewrite of such bits could form other GSOC projects. The download size of such a subset would be smaller than the full version and MUCH smaller that a virtual machine image, as one doesn't need to include a complete operating system too. Wolfram Research did at one point offer a subset of Mathematica, which i think was called Calc Centre, but I think it was a bit of a flop, so I don't think that they sell it any more. That might be an argument for not doing a partial native port. If a partial port was done, avoiding the need for a browser, one could use its own parser and provide a more confident interface. Although many are critical of Mathematica's interface, it is more consistent than that of Sage. Dave -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
