Hi Sage Devels, etc. I am getting very impatient about how slowly work on the Microsoft Windows Sage Project has been moving. Thus I've started a new project to really move this forward and actually get something done. I just put a day's work into it:
http://windows.sagemath.org/ The goal is to make a first full stable useful release by May 22, 2009 at Sage Days 15. If you are interested in helping, see the web page, download the newest zip file and start hacking. If you have something useful to say, respond to this email and join the sage-windows mailing list. You will need Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, but they have a free 90-day trial here, and May 22, 2009 is about 90 days away: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/default.aspx I've done all my work on this so far using Windows XP installed into a VMware virtual machine on my OS X box. FAQ: 1. Is the "Windows Sage" project a bit different from the usual Sage? Yes. It is not a requirement that this be a direct port with identical functionality to OS X / Linux / Solaris Sage. The requirement is that it be useful and provide a valuable service to the community. Pulling this off may require some refactoring of the Sage library (especially the notebook and interfaces). 2. Will GPL3 be allowed in "Unix Sage" but stripped out of "Windows Sage"? GPL3 components will *also* be allowed in Windows Sage. The only requirement is that there will be a supported *version* of Sage that includes no (L)GPL3 components. -- William -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
