On Jan 8, 9:59 pm, kcrisman <[email protected]> wrote: > > no, it doesn't give you *any* reasonable figures, at all! > > In fact, I am sure lots of people (a vast majority) are running Cygwin > > (or Mingw - a clone of Cygwin) apps on their Windows boxes without > > even realising this. Cygwin works quietly behind the scenes here. > > That is very interesting. When you say "a vast majority", can you > give an example of a specific application people are using? That > could be good to know about.
a good and relevant to Sage example is GAP (which is also available from within Sage) A binary distribution of GAP for Windows consists (apart from the common to all platforms code in GAP language etc) of an executable built in Cygwin environment and linked against the Cygwin DLL, and the latter DLL itself (and a DOS batch file to start the thing up). That's all you need to run GAP on Windows, no fullblown Cygwin environment is needed. (you can try it yourself: www.gap-system.org) > > Also, from earlier in the discussion it sounded like it was possible > to make Sage-Cygwin be a one-step download, e.g. > > 1. Download sage-cygwin.msi > 2. Double click and click through an install process > 3. Click the icon for sage-cygwin and begin using Sage > > If that is possible, that would be fantastic. Up to now my > understanding was that one first had to download Cygwin and install/ > configure it, then download the Sage install and hope that it > cooperated with Cygwin on one's computer. no, I don't see any reason for this being impossible (see above). GAP is basically like this, although it's packaged using zip... HTH, Dmitrii > - kcrisman
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