Gentoo has the ability to compile software in Microsoft's SUA. Maybe it could be useful to port sage. You can check out some docs here<http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/prefix/> .
2010/1/3 Dima Pasechnik <dimp...@gmail.com> > Dave, > it makes no sense to compare cygwin and virtualbox by Googlehits. > Cygwin is just a tool to port Unix software to Windows quickly > and relatively painlessly (at least the "command-line" software > can usually be ported pretty quickly). Cygwin is also a toolchain to > develop software on Windows (i.e. it has compilers, etc). > > Virtualbox is an emulator to run other operating systems > (e.g. Linux atop WIndows, or the other way aroung). So you can just > run a Linux program in your Windows box, unamended. > > Also, note that many parts of Sage are not developed by Sage > developers, e.g. Maxima, GAP. There is little chance that these parts > would be ported to Windows natively (on the other hand, e.g., GAP has > a Cygwin port, that is well-supported etc). I toyed with making a > native port of GAP to Windows some ten years ago. It was a highly > non-trivial task that would have taken me months back then (and then I > was relatively well-versed in Windows programming). > So a "native" port of Sage would still settle for Cygwin ports of some of > its > modules. > > Dmitrii > > > > 2010/1/2 Dr. David Kirkby <david.kir...@onetel.net>: > > 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. > > > > FWIW, a Google on Cywin brings up 4.8 million hits. On VirtualBox 4.2 > million > > hits. Considering Cywin was released in 1995 and VirtualBox in 2007, it > would > > suggest to me its a more popular tool today. > > > > 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<sage-support%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support > URL: http://www.sagemath.org > -- 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
