On 2014-08-25, Francesco Biscani <bluesca...@gmail.com> wrote: > --089e013c6576f2ddd4050175975f > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > On 25 August 2014 16:28, Dima Pasechnik <dimp...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> apparently it's better, but it's only supported on certain more >> expensive versions of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008. >> >> to quote: >> >> Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2008 R2; Windows 7 Enterprise; >> Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit edition; Windows 7 Ultimate; Windows 7 Ultimate >> 64-bit edition; > > > Ah bummer... I wonder if the version check is strict or if it can be worked > around somehow. good luck doing this - you will need to provide a hack that does this to be distributed with Sage :)
As well, SUA is deprecated in Windows 8, and won't be supported beyond Windows 8. > Seems like at some point Debian had an Interix port: > > http://www.debian-interix.net/ > > (As a side question, what versions of Windows are commonly found on > desktops/laptops these days? Are people switching over to Windows 8?) some time ago retailers offered a choice of Windows 7 or 8, but I guess this will stop sooner of later. Anyhow, I've never seen a retailer offering a windows edition other than Home or Pro. > > There's quite a bit of material on how to write a replacement of fork() > using the Windows API. See, e.g., > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/985281/what-is-the-closest-thing-windows-has-to-fork/985525#985525 > http://doxygen.scilab.org/5.3/d0/d8f/forkWindows_8c_source.html#l00216 > > And it seems MinGW has the prototype for fork(), although not the > implementation: > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9612315/why-does-my-compiler-not-accept-fork-despite-my-inclusion-of-unistd-h > > Even if the implementation is not 100% conforming, it would probably be > adequate for some purposes. Is the lack of fork() the biggest showstopper > or just one of many roadblocks? I would imagine a lot of external > components included in sage are not written with platform independence in > mind (but IMO this would rather be an argument to work with upstream to > rectify the issue instead of working around it). > GAP uses fork, mmap, and ioctl - none of which are supported by MinGW/MSYS. Dunno about PARI and Singular.' -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
