On Wednesday 16 May 2007 10:07, William Stein wrote: > Hi, > > Here is some fan mail from a new user of SAGE on Windows (via VMware) > -- see below. > I think we're going to have to make a hard choice about whether to continue > to support Cygwin or just distribute SAGE on Windows via VMware, since it > is so frickin' hard to get everything to work on Cygwin, and there are many > efficiency issues. It's a hard choice since many people have put in so > much time to get SAGE to work on Cygwin (I've put in weeks myself). > Comments welcome.
I'm quite windows free in my personal life so I don't use cygwin much. However, I've used it in the past, and my experience has been nothing but disappointing -- it's a wonderful promise, but when you try and do anything in cygwin beyond the basic, it seems to be a royal nightmare. SAGE is way beyond the basic and so I wouldn't regard it as any great loss to lose cygwin support. (That's my own observation, but I'm not the target audience of the cygwin port whatsoever.) -- Joel --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
