Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > William Stein wrote: > >>> But that is very different from a native Windows port, which was I thought >>> we >>> were talking about. >> >> We are talking about porting Sage to windows. I will leave it to the >> lawyers to define "native Windows port". > > Fair enough. > >> I strongly disagree with your assertion that Cygwin would be vastly >> inferior to VirtualBox for Windows users. How much have you used >> VirtualBox or Cygwin? I've used both for hundreds of hours, and I've >> also listened to and watched tons of Windows users. Sage built >> using Cygwin would be vastly better for most Windows users than >> VirtualBox. >> >> -- William > > I've not used either very much, but of the two, I much prefer VirtualBox. > Personally I was never over impressed with Cygwin, but I find Virtualbox very > impressive. >
I've used both. If I remember correctly cygwin-0.18-alpha in the years about 1995. I loved to have a unix like environment in the Windows world. I remember compiling Sage in cygwin took centuries, as opening a file took ages :( Maybe times have changed. Looking forward to a cygwin build of Sage. VirtualBox has its own virtues. Let alone we could install Windows-whatever in VirtualBox, install cygwin and try to install Sage with it :) Jaap -- 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
