On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 3:38 AM, mabshoff <mabsh...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > > On Feb 23, 3:31 am, ahmet alper parker <aapar...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > >> If you need visual studio 2008, I have one, which is purchased by my >> university. > > The Sage project has several MSVC 2008 Professional licenses donated > by Microsoft Research for the port, so we are good. The point William > was trying to make that if you do not have access some way to MSVC > 2008 the free Express version should work.
Actually, I think people will probably need Visual Studio 2008 Professional, since that's what we're testing with. The express version should work for building cython extensions though in most cases, to support %cython in the notebook, which we will hopefully have up at running very soon. The Microsoft website I linked to has a 90-day free trial of Visual Studio 2008 *Professional*, and I see the window for me working on this as < 90 day right now, so that should be plenty of time. :-) But you're right --for me personally I should just use one of the licenses Microsoft gave us. > It is unclear it that will > work in the end (I think MPIR's VC project uses identical files in > different directories when using the optimized assembly code and that > was a problem for the Express edition at least half a year ago, but > Brian Gladman might have fixed the MPIR project) and there is no > elegant way to build 64 bit binaries with the Express edition either, > but since that is not here today or tomorrow theses are issues we will > deal with later. > >> I think it would not be illegal to compile and distribute sage >> for you with it. But remember, i am not a lawyer...AAP > > There is no restriction what you can do with compiled code produced by > MSVC. MS had to be stupid to make any such restriction :) > > Cheers, > > Michael > > > -- 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
