On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Anne Schilling <a...@math.ucdavis.edu> wrote: > > Hi Michael, > > We just had a workshop and there were several people > interested in using sage (and even writing code), > but they are using Windows. Do you know what the time frame > is to get the windows port working?
Here is the sum total of all work that has ever been done on the native MSVC port of Sage to Windows. 1. Over a year ago Michael Abshoff put substantial effort into evaluating the difficulty of building various Sage components using MSVC on Windows and posted the results on the wiki. 2. Last year Chris Gorecki worked for over a month to port pexpect to windows. 3. In February 2009, I actually started doing something with Sage + MSVC for three solid days. This resulted in the first release of something. 3. In March 2009, Dan Shumow put in quite a bit of work on the build system. 4. In March 2009, Chris Gorecki did some work on wexpect (his port of pexpect to windows) since it doesn't seem to "just work". My best estimate is that at the current rate, Sage for windows will *never* be finished. I see no way in hell it will happen unless I either clone myself, work massively harder and sleep way less, or some other people pop up to help. Of course, I didn't think Sage itself would ever happen (i.e., have more than 10 users), and I was wrong. Independent of the above is the possibility of a version of Sage that works in Cygwin. I maintained such a version until about Feb 2007 when Martin Albrecht created libsingular, which never worked with Cygwin, and instead of dropping libsingular, we dropped Cygwin support. Michael Abshoff is rumored to have got Cygwin to work again with libsingular. Michael keeps threatening to try to get Sage to build and work with Cygwin again, and I hope he does it. -- William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
