Re: [sage-devel] Re: Linux on Windows

2016-03-31 Thread William Stein
Maybe it is time for another Sage Days at Microsoft... (we had one there a few years ago). On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 1:02 AM, Volker Braun wrote: > On Thursday, March 31, 2016 at 9:23:56 AM UTC+2, bluescarni wrote: >> >> On the theme of hell freezing over, this also happened: >> >> https://blogs.ms

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Linux on Windows

2016-03-31 Thread Volker Braun
On Thursday, March 31, 2016 at 9:23:56 AM UTC+2, bluescarni wrote: > > On the theme of hell freezing over, this also happened: > > https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2016/03/30/visual-c-for-linux-development/ > Though that is less surprising since they released Linux remote debugging (gdb ov

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Linux on Windows

2016-03-31 Thread Francesco Biscani
On the theme of hell freezing over, this also happened: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2016/03/30/visual-c-for-linux-development/ On 31 March 2016 at 02:17, 'Bill Hart' via sage-devel < sage-devel@googlegroups.com> wrote: > It's almost a year since I predicted Microsoft would do somethi

[sage-devel] Re: Linux on Windows

2016-03-30 Thread 'Bill Hart' via sage-devel
It's almost a year since I predicted Microsoft would do something like this. I have an email from September last year which was a followup email some months after I told a colleague something like this would happen. If I recall our conversation correctly, I was pretty specific about being able

[sage-devel] Re: Linux on Windows

2016-03-30 Thread 'Bill Hart' via sage-devel
It looks like this thing is going to be pretty solid [1]. I'm actually incredibly excited about it, more than I have been about Windows for about 20 years. Bill. [1] https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2016/P488 On Wednesday, 30 March 2016 18:51:50 UTC+2, Mike Hansen wrote: > > It's looking

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Linux on Windows

2016-03-30 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 11:37 AM, Volker Braun wrote: > On Wednesday, March 30, 2016 at 8:15:06 PM UTC+2, William wrote: >> >> "the POSIX subsystem was essentially a checkbox feature to meet some >> government contracting requirements. [...]" > > > Thought that refers to the ancient "posix subsyst

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Linux on Windows

2016-03-30 Thread Volker Braun
On Wednesday, March 30, 2016 at 8:15:06 PM UTC+2, William wrote: > > "the POSIX subsystem was essentially a checkbox feature to meet some > government contracting requirements. [...]" > Thought that refers to the ancient "posix subsystem", not the more recent "windows services for unix" which I

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Linux on Windows

2016-03-30 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 10:54 AM, Volker Braun wrote: > Sounds like the devil is ice-skating to work today ;-) > > Of course MS had a posix layer since about forever, they just never did > anything with it or really made it available for others to use... "the POSIX subsystem was essentially a che

[sage-devel] Re: Linux on Windows

2016-03-30 Thread Volker Braun
Sounds like the devil is ice-skating to work today ;-) Of course MS had a posix layer since about forever, they just never did anything with it or really made it available for others to use... On Wednesday, March 30, 2016 at 6:51:50 PM UTC+2, Mike Hansen wrote: > > It's looking like Windows is g