Em Ter, 2009-01-27 às 06:13 -0800, mabshoff escreveu: > > > On Jan 26, 11:35 am, Robert Bradshaw <rober...@math.washington.edu> > wrote: > > <SNIP> > > > I saw there was discussion of the Windows port at SD12. It doesn't > > look like the wiki page has been updated, is there a good summary of > > what the status is? > > I found some major Cygwin specific crap in sage-env that has been > messing with my builds for quite a while, i.e. I could not link > against static libs at all. That will make building Sage on Cygwin > much easier. > > Dan will be working on packaging components as an MSI, i.e. the Sage- > lite project. > > My plan post Sage 3.3 is to merge back the two dozen or so Cygwin > fixes I have sitting on my hard disk into the tree and to get Sage to > start up again. Then I will fix doctesting issues and generally plan > to provide a binary for now while working next on the SUA port. I am > not sure if Cygwin will ever become supported to be build out of the > box again, but at least binaries that pass doctest should exist. I am > not sure this will happen in time for 4.0, but we will see how it > goes. Now that the OSX 64 bit as well as the Solaris port are getting > close to Tier I this will be my main focus. > > > - Robert > > Cheers, > > Michael
I'm against all that SUA stuff. I completely agree it's a great help to get sage running on Windows, but that only happens for a very small user base: those who have SUA installed. When I see something saying that it "Works on Windows", specially open source software, I expect it runs at least on what's most common, which in my view it's Windows XP and Vista Home. Those clearly are not the case with SUA. Also, I believe that would be a major milestone to reach, which would really deserve a major version number. I say that because quite a lot of people around there would spit in anything *nix before even trying. To be able to run Sage in Windows for the newbie user would be like a whole new "market" for Sage. Cheers, Ronan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
