On Monday, August 25, 2014 11:49:49 AM UTC+2, mmarco wrote: > > IIRC, GAP and Pari/GP do have a native windows version. Singular has a > cygwin version. > > El lunes, 25 de agosto de 2014 11:05:08 UTC+2, Dima Pasechnik escribió: >> >> On 2014-08-25, Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd) < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> > --089e01537eba8a9d2805016fca81 >> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 >> > >> > 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. >> >> Sage components such as GAP, Singular, PARI/GP do not have native Windows >> ports. >> Without them you'd better run IPython directly, it will provide you >> better >> > PARI/GP is definitely not native. It is Cygwin or MinGW. And PARI/GP was one of the big issues when Tim Abbott (? or someone else, I don't really recall the discussions here) was aatempting to build Sage on Windows. Indeed they have some sizeof(long) = sizeof(void*) constraint which is more than painful for a Windows port.
If you dig through the archive here, you may find that post and also get an idea of what the other big obstacles were. -- 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.
