William Stein wrote: >> Looking at spkg/base/prereq-0.3-install (the file I just updated) to >> 0.4 I see: >> >> ----------------------- >> if [ "$SAGE_PORT" = "" ]; then >> if [ `uname | sed -e 's/WIN.\+/WIN/'` = "CYGWIN" ]; then >> echo "Building or using SAGE with Cygwin is absolutely definitely" >> echo "not supported, and will definitely not work. The only way" >> echo "to run SAGE on Windows, is via VMware (or Virtual PC or " >> echo "some other virtualization system such as andLinux)." >> echo "NOTE: SAGE used to support Cygwin several months ago >> (around March" >> echo "2007), so you may have seen some old documentation about this." >> exit -1 >> fi >> ------------------------------- >> >> then late down I see: >> >> ----------------------------- >> if [ "$UNAME" = "CYGWIN" ]; then >> echo "Unfortunately, building SAGE on Cygwin is no longer supported." >> echo "Please use a virtualization solution instead, such as vmware." >> exit 1 >> fi >> >> ----------------------------- >> >> >> I assumed from that, you had given up supporting cygwin, rather than you >> were actively trying to develop it. >> >> >> If you can make some suggestions about what you actually want written >> between those 'if' statements, I'll write it. >> >> Dave > > Thanks. How about this: > > if [ "$UNAME" = "CYGWIN" ]; then > echo "Unfortunately, building SAGE on Cygwin is not currently supported," > echo "though we are actively working on supporting it. If you would like" > echo "to help with the porting effort, please post to" > echo "" > echo " http://groups.google.com/group/sage-windows"; > echo "" > echo "Also, see http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/6743"; > echo "In the meantime, to run Sage on Windows, please use" > echo "a virtualization solution instead, such as vmware." > exit 1 > fi
In the updated prereq I have put at http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/kirkby/Solaris-fixes/prereq-0.4/ the wording has been changed to what you wanted. I thought VirtualBox was working better than VMware now, so perhaps there should be a bit of a suggestion to use VirtualBox rather than VMware. But at the minute, the wording is as you say. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
