William Stein wrote: > On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Dr. David Kirkby > <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: >> William Stein wrote: >> >>> Unfortunately, there is no native port of Sage to Microsoft Windows (I >>> wish there were). So you can't use it from .NET. >>> >>> -- William >> Is that situation changing? > > Not lately.
Shame. As much as I do not like to admit it, a Windows version would dramatically increase the user base. That said, tech savvy people who are thinking of running Sage are more likely to use OS X, Linux, Solaris than the average PC user. But still, a large number of tech savvy people only use Windows. >> I was under the impression Microsoft were sponsoring >> a port, but I've not heard much about it. > > 2 years ago Microsoft sponsored part-time work on a port for a year. There was never a hope in hells chance with that. To get ALL of the functionality of Sage, the time is going to be several man years - probably 10 to 30 of them. A more limited subset of functionality would take less time of course. If people can run some parts of Sage, but it pops up with the occasional: "Sorry, that functionality is not available in the native Windows version of Sage. Please use Linux, Solaris or Install VirtulBox on your PC and download an image from ..." A limited sub set of the full functionality: 1) May be sufficient for many users. 2) Might get them wanting more, and so upgrade. Shareware software was often like that. You get some functionality free, but you paid for the rest. Well in this case, they don't pay money, but they have to pay with a bit of effort to install Linux, Solaris or VirtualBox, plus learn to use Linux/Unix. >> Knowing the hurdles to overcome in porting Sage to Solaris, I would imagine >> those hurdles are much larger to port to Windows. However, with a larger user >> base, perhaps you can attract more developers, so a port is easier. > > That appears to not be the case. After 3-4 years of > waiting/trying/encouraging, I'm pretty sure the only way Sage will > ever get ported to Windows is if me and Mike Hansen just do it > ourselves. I'd go for the limited subset approach. Dave -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
