is there any cooperative linux version of sage on windows? http://www.colinux.org/ Regards AAP
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 11:16 PM, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
