On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 12:44 PM, Jeroen Demeyer <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2014-08-25 11:33, Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd) wrote: >> >> I think people been working on it for years and despite a lot of time >> and effort spent on it, it has never been completed. I think there are a >> number of reasons it has not been completed, but lack of effort is not >> one of them. > > I think Sage-on-Cygwin is fay more realistic than a pure native (even > stripped down) version of Sage. I you care about Windows, concentrate your > efforts on the Cygwin port.
+1 And we actually did spend *months* of very hard work on such a "mini sage" fully native approach to sage on windows, a few years ago (when it was easier). It was a complete and total waste of time. Once you understand the architecture of Sage, you see that even the most basics parts of Sage are so intertwined that the amount of dependencies (e.g., PARI, etc.,) that you need, make this approach incredibly difficult. Really IPython + Sympy (say) *is* this "mini sage", but to get from that to full native windows Sage is at least a million dollar project.... > > 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. That's not true. E.g., Puppy Linux is around 50MB, and is a complete useful operating system. In fact, I used to build the Sage VM (targeted at windows) using Puppy Linux years ago. -- William > > > -- > 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. -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org [email protected] -- 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.
