Jaap Spies wrote: > Dr. David Kirkby wrote: >> William Stein wrote: >> >>>> But that is very different from a native Windows port, which was I thought >>>> we >>>> were talking about. >>> We are talking about porting Sage to windows. I will leave it to the >>> lawyers to define "native Windows port". >> Fair enough. >> >>> I strongly disagree with your assertion that Cygwin would be vastly >>> inferior to VirtualBox for Windows users. How much have you used >>> VirtualBox or Cygwin? I've used both for hundreds of hours, and I've >>> also listened to and watched tons of Windows users. Sage built >>> using Cygwin would be vastly better for most Windows users than >>> VirtualBox. >>> >>> -- William >> I've not used either very much, but of the two, I much prefer VirtualBox. >> Personally I was never over impressed with Cygwin, but I find Virtualbox very >> impressive. >> > > I've used both. If I remember correctly cygwin-0.18-alpha in the years about > 1995. > I loved to have a unix like environment in the Windows world. > > I remember compiling Sage in cygwin took centuries, as opening a file took > ages :( > > Maybe times have changed. Looking forward to a cygwin build of Sage. > > VirtualBox has its own virtues. Let alone we could install Windows-whatever > in VirtualBox, install cygwin and try to install Sage with it :)
Has anybody tried Microsoft's SUA (Unix compatability layer on Windows)? It uses gcc as the default compiler, seems to support 64-bit... It comes preinstalled (though must be turned on) on Windows Ultimate and Enterprise versions. So I guess it's harder to create a one-click installer that will "just work with Windows", but SUA support would e.g. allow a lot of universities to install Sage on their Windows boxes. I know nothing more and don't have access to a Windows box; recent thread on cython-dev and www.interix.com has some more details. -- Dag Sverre -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
